MAXINE LEWIS
Lecturer
Department of Classics and Ancient History
3 Wynyard St
University of Auckland
maxine.lewis@auckland.ac.nz
(09) 923 3043
1. AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Latin literature, esp. Catullus
Greek and Roman gender and sexuality
Roman history and society
Greek poetry, esp. Apollonius, Callimachus, and the epigrammatists
Cultural and literary critical theory
2. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2006-2011
PhD in Classics, University of Sydney
Thesis: Catullus’ Poetics of Place: Structures of Geographical Reference in the
Corpus
Supervisors: Associate Professor Lindsay Watson
Examiners: Professor Julia Haig Gaisser, Associate Professor David Wray, Dr
Robert Cowan
2008
Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona, under supervision of Professor Marilyn
B. Skinner
2001-2005
BA, First class Honours, Faculty Medal, Classics and Ancient History,
University of Newcastle
3. PUBLICATIONS
Book
Manuscript Catullus’ Poetics of Place, for Oxford University Press
Articles - In Print
‘Audience, Communication and Textuality in Catullus Carmen 67’ Antichthon 43 (2009) 34-49
Review of Alan Shapiro (trans.), Euripides: Trojan Women. Greek Tragedy in New Translations
(New York 2008) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.61
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Submitted
Invited review of Daniel H. Garrison, The Student’s Catullus Fourth Edition (U.S.A. 2012), Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
‘Colonizer and Colonized? Catullan identity, imperial geography, and post-Colonial Theory’
Submitted to Arethusa July 2011
4. TEACHING
2012
Year
2012
2012
2012
Lecturer at The University of Auckland, on-going.
Course
Love and Death in Greek
and Roman Literature
Latin Intermediate
Language Acquisition
Catullus
2007-2011
Year
2011
Level
1st year
2nd year
Honours/
Masters
Level
1st year
2011
Women in Ancient
Literature
3rd year
2011
Introductory Latin
1st year
2010
1st year
2010
Foundations for Ancient
Rome
Sexuality in Greece and
Rome
Intermediate Latin
2009
Greece to the Persian Wars
1st year
2008
Women and Gender in
Antiquity
Latin Literature in
Translation
Magic in Ancient Greece
and Rome
Ancient Greek Religion
3rd year
2010
2008
2007
2007
Responsibilities
Lecturer
Enrolment
137
Lecturer
12
Lecturer
2
I taught Latin, ancient history and classical civilisation at the Universities of
Sydney, Newcastle and Arizona, in the following subjects:
Course
Foundations for Ancient
Rome
Greek and Roman Epic
2011
Institution
University of
Auckland
University of
Auckland
University of
Auckland
2nd year
3rd year
2nd year
2nd year
2nd year
2nd year
Institution
University of
Sydney
University of
Sydney
University of
Newcastle
University of
Sydney
University of
Sydney
University of
Newcastle
University of
Sydney
University of
Newcastle
University of
Arizona
University of
Arizona
University of
Sydney
University of
Sydney
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Responsibilities
Course administrator,
tutor, marker
Tutor, marker
Enrolment
350
Course Coordinator,
sole instructor,
administrator
Tutor, marker
34
Course administrator,
tutor, marker
Lecturer, tutor
319
Lecturer
25
Sole tutor, marker
28
Guest lecturer
57
Guest lecturer
47
Sole tutor, marker
72
Tutor, marker
136
120
49
32
5. DEPARTMENT PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2012
U.K. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Exeter)
‘Queering Catullus in the classroom: the ethics of teaching poem 63’
2011
ASCS 32 Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Auckland)
‘Catullus and post-colonial theory: landscape, identity and Otherness’
2010
U.K. Classical Association Annual Meeting (Cardiff)
‘Geography and Time in Catullus c.64’
Arethusa Seminar Series, State University of New York (Buffalo)
‘Colonizer and Colonized? Catullan identity, Catullan geography, and PostColonial Theory’
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
‘Nunc Celtiber es’ ethnicity and geographical identity in Catullus’ poem 39’
2009
ASCS 30 Australasian Society for Classical Studies (Sydney)
‘Catullus and the epigrammatic tradition’
University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History department seminar
‘Greek models of Catullan intertextuality’
2008
University of Arizona, Department of Classics graduate colloquium
‘Theocritus and Catullus: A Triangular Allusion’
2007
Roman Byways: An International Conference in Memory of Charles Tesoriero,
University of Sydney
‘Catullus 67: Audience and Meaning’
6. SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
Award
Professor Richard Waterhouse Travel Grant
International Student Bursary
University Postgraduate Award
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme
Faculty of Arts Travel Grant
Andrew Wright Travel Grant
Postgraduate Research Support Scheme
Faculty Medal (Honours)
Summer Vacation Research Scholarship
Williams Classics Undergraduate Scholarship
Value
$4,000
£250
$20,500 / annum
$500
$1,000
$2,500
$1500
$1,000
$500
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Awarding body
University of Sydney
U.K. Classical Association
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle
Year
2010
2010
2006-2010
2009
2007
2007
2006
2004
2004
2003
7. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2012
Plenary speaker at NZACT Mini-Conference “Virgil: Master of Allusion”
Facilitator of “Teaching Virgil” workshop for University of Auckland EDCURR
course
Guest lecturer at Sydney Latin Summer School “The poetry of Catullus”
Teacher at Sydney Latin Summer School (section 3b)
2011
Invited peer-reviewer, University of Wisconsin Press
2010
University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History department representative.
Sent to the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) to research crossdepartment post-graduate exchange
Volunteer assistant at Appian and the Romans, a Conference at the University of
Sydney
Classics Outreach presenter and student mentor at Wyong Public School (NSW,
Australia)
2009
University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History Postgraduate
Representative and departmental seminar convener
Volunteer assistant at ASCS 30, Sydney
2008
Volunteer assistant at the Annual Meeting of CAMWS the Classical Association
of Mid- West- and South (Tucson, Arizona)
2007
ARC (Australian Research Council) project research assistant to Dr
Lindsay Watson
Completed Faculty of Arts Tutors’ Development Program
8. LANGUAGES
Latin, Ancient Greek, German
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