Dennis Trout
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Duke
Interests: Late Antiquity, Paulinus of Nola
Contact: troutd@missouri.edu
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I have been a member of the department since the fall of 2000 and am currently the department chair. After receiving my PhD from Duke University in 1989, I moved to Boston, where I was Assistant and then Associate professor in the Classics Department at Tufts University. I am primarily interested in the history and literature of Late Antiquity and am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies as well as Book Review Editor for the (new) Journal of Late Antiquity. I participate regularly in the quadrennial conference on Patristic Studies held at Oxford and in the biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity series that is underway on this side of the Atlantic. In 1999 I published Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Berkeley: University of California Press).
At the moment I am working on Latin epigraphic poetry of the fourth and fifth centuries and preparing a translation of the poems of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384. My recent publications include:
"Theodelinda's Rome: Ampullae, Pittacia, and the Image of the City." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 50 (2005) 131-150.
"Saints, Identity and the City." In A People's History of Christianity. Vol. 2: Late Ancient Christianity. Ed. Virginia Burrus, 165-187. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.
"Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome." In The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. Ed. D. Martin and P. Cox Miller, 298-315. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Forthcoming are:
"Inscribing Identity: The Latin Epigraphic Habit in Late Antiquity." The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity. Ed. Philip Rousseau. Oxford: Blackwell.
"Christianity in Italy." The Cambridge History of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Vol. 2: Religions of Late Antiquity. Ed. W. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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