Daniel Hooley
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Education: Ph.D. [Classics], Ph.D. [English] Minnesota
Interests: Satire, later Latin, Classical tradition, Translation Studies
Contact: hooleyd@missouri.edu
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I received my MA in Latin and doctorates in English Literature and Classical Studies from Minnesota. In English, I concentrated on the American modernists, notably Ezra Pound; in Classics, my work centered in Roman poetry, turning to satire in later days. Classical reception in English literature and Renaissance Latin poetry were distracting vices.
Upon completing my degrees, I taught for periods at Carleton College, Princeton, and Allegheny College, and arrived at the University of Missouri in '92. Here, I teach a broad range of courses in Latin and Greek literature. I’ve written articles, book chapters, and reviews centering on Roman poetry, the classical tradition, and translation studies, and three books: The Classics in Paraphrase: Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry (1988), The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius (1997); and Roman Satire in Blackwell's Introductions to the Classical World series (2007). Another book on classical satire's reception in European literature is in the works.
To borrow Persius's self-description, I am a semipaganus (half-rustic) in the field of Classical Studies. I am fortunate to be working with a group of superb colleagues whose specializations in other areas of classical history and literature balance mine and compensate for (any number of) weaknesses all my own. For my part, I am able to offer specialized direction in Roman poetry, particularly satire, and can help students interested in the abundance of fascinating material that falls into the area of classical tradition and reception. I am of the view that Classics remains a broadly-encompassing, living possession; it seems to me further that a not insignificant part of the discipline's continuing viability entails our thinking through the Classical presences that function still within the fabric of current culture(s). I see this not as the scholar's debt to the past, but simply, as a means to the discovery of things valuable, new, disturbing, and most always enlightening, in both ancient l
iterature and our transforming receptions of it. That, in a word (or two, and far too many parentheses), is the baggage I bring to my classes.
Other preoccupations: environment, climbing (5.10 on a good day; on a bad, don’t ask)
pictured here is a fresh morning on Froze-to-Death Plateau, Montana
A few recent and forthcoming publications:
Roman Satire. Blackwell Publishers, 2007.
"Occasional Translation and the Classic" in Translation and the Classic, Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko, edd. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007).
" Rhetoric and Satire: Horace and Juvenal " in The Blackwell Companion to Roman Rhetoric, Jon Hall and William Dominik, edd. (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming 2006).
"Alluding to Satire: Rochester to Johnson" in Cambridge Companion to Classical Satire, K. Freudenburg, ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005).
“Persius in the Middle,” in Middles in Latin Poetry, Stratis Kyriakidis and Francesco De Martino, edd. (Levante Editori, 2004).
"Ben Jonson and Horatian Lyric,” in 'A Certain Text': Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas Clayton. Linda Anderson and Janis Lull, edd. (University of Delaware Press, 2002).
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