Stewart, Selina
Dr. Selina Stewart
(Associate Professor )
Ph.D. Classics, Cornell University (1997)
B.A. Classical Philology, Concordia University (1983)
H. M. Tory 2-80
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-0857
E-mail: selinas@ualberta.ca
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Ancient Greek Poetry and Poetics
Hellenistic Literature
Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry; Sappho
Aratus and Greek Astronomy
Classics and Queer Theory
Colour categorization in Greek and Latin
Indo-European and Historical Linguistics
Decipherment and the History of Translation| Teaching |
GREEK 301, 302, 481/505 (Greek Lyric Poetry), 482/505 (Greek Poetry) 499 (Greek & Anatolian), 599 (Mycenaean)
LATIN 101, 475 (Roman Elegiac and Lyric Poetry), (499 (Roman Elegy)
CLASS 102 (Greek and Roman Mythology), CLASS 221 (Literature of Greece and Rome), CLASS 321 (Greek Literature in Translation), CLASS 303 (Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity), CLASS 354 (Reading the Bisexual Culture of Greece and Rome)
MLCS 321 (Origin and Development of Germanic, Slavic and Romance), MLCS 400 (History of Translation)
LING 405 (Historical Linguistics), LING 499 (Altaic Language Family)
| Publications |
“‘Apollo of the Shore’: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Acrostic Phenomenon”, Classical Quarterly Vol. 60 no. 2 December 2010. www.journals.cambridge.org/article_S0009838810000224
“Aratus” forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Apollonius' Argonautica, Cambridge University Press 2010.
“Emending Aratus' Insomnia: Calllimachus E. 27”, Mnemosyne Volume 61, Number 4, 2008, pp. 586-600(15).
“The ‘Blues’ of Aratus”, in Beyond the Canon: Hellenistica Groningana 11. Leuven: 2006.
Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, edd., Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, translated under the direction of Catherine Porter, Boston : 2000. Translations of “Physics” and “Technology”. Originally Le Savoir Grec, Paris, 1996.
“Aratus and the Vanities”, MS in preparation.
Recent or Upcoming Talks:
“Sappho and the Essentialism of Same-Sex Lyric”, Classical Association of Canada, Vancouver, May 12th-14th 2009.
“A Linguistic Look at Linnaeus’ Local Ladies, Lycaenids, and the Like”, Selina Stewart and John Acorn, University of Alberta, February 14th, 2009.
“Even in Another Time: Sappho and the Intersection of Queer Past and Present”, Inside/Out Colloquium University of Alberta, October 16th 2008.
“Signs of Illusion in Aratus’ Phaenomena”, General Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Montréal, May 12th-14th, 2008.
“Sive deus, sive dea: Prophecy, Ritual and Exilic Gods from Babylon to Rome”, Israel & its Contexts: A Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich & University of Alberta, Edmonton, at the University of Alberta, April 7-11th 2008.
“Dying Colours: On the Translation of Ancient Greek Colour Terms in Early Modern Europe”, University of British Columbia, February 7th 2008.
“The Madness of Eros in Apollonius of Rhodes”, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary, November 16th 2007.