Jennifer V Ebbeler

Biography

Research interests: Greco-Roman epistolography; the literature and cultural history of Late Antiquity, particularly Roman Africa; St. Augustine; Classical Latin prose; Vergil's Eclogues

Fields: Latin Literature, esp. Latin prose; Late Antique literary and cultural history

Courses Taught:

CC 304/RS 315: Pagans and Christians in the Later Roman Empire

CC 348/Hist. 362G/RS 365 (writing intensive seminar): Age of Augustine

CC 304 and 348/RS 365/Hist. 362: The Worlds of Late Antiquity

CC 348/Comp. Lit. 323 (writing intensive seminar): Cultures of the Book

Latin 323: Cicero's Letters

Latin 323: Suetonius

Latin f311J: Cicero

Latin 365: Augustine's Confessions

Latin s312K: Vergil's Aeneid 11

Latin 323:Ovid's Heroides

Latin 324: Advanced Prose Composition and a Latin 323: Catullus

Latin 323: Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics

Latin 383 (seminar): Augustine's Confessions

Latin 390: Readings in Latin Prose (Cornelius Nepos, Cicero, Suetonius

Latin 383 (seminar): Latin Letters and Letter-Writing

Latin 385: Augustine's Confessions

Latin 380J: A History of Latin Literature

CC 380J/Latin 380J/Greek 380J: Proseminar in Classical Literature Conference Courses (Instructor-directed individual study, with weekly meetings)

Latin 386: The History of Latin Literature (grad)

CC 381: Cultures of Late Antiquity (grad)

Latin 370: Augustine and the Manichees (undergrad)

Latin 386: Ovid's Heroides (grad)

Latin 386: The History of Latin Literature (grad)

Latin 679HA: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity (undergrad)

Latin 386: Augustine's Confessions (grad)

Recent Publications:

Books

Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity, ed. Ralph Mathisen). Forthcoming.

(under contract) Pagans and Christians in the Later Roman Empire: An Intermediate Latin Reader (co-authored with Dr. Cristiana Sogno; Cambridge UP). 

Selected Articles

"Linus as a Figure for Pastoral Poetics in Vergil's Eclogues" (forthcoming Helios).

"Letters," in Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, eds. A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (forthcoming).

"Tradition, Innovation, and Epistolary Mores in Late Antiquity," in Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau (forthcoming Spring 2009).

(co-authored with Cristiana Sogno) "Religious Identity and the Politics of Patronage: Symmachus and Augustine," Historia 56.2 (2007): 230-242.

"Mixed Messages: Decoding Two Late Antique Correspondences," in Ancient Letters, eds. Ruth Morello and Andrew Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 301-323.

"pinax"; "pinacotheca"; "piraticus"; "pila"; "pistor," Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Vol. X,1 Fasc. XIV (2003).

"Caesar's Letters and the Ideology of Literary History," Helios 30.1 (2003): 3-19.