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J Clare Woods
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
233C Allen Building
Campus Box 90103
Phone: (919) 684-6067
Fax: 919-681-4262
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:30 - 4:30 PM, and by appointment
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Curriculum Vitae
Research Description
Late and Medieval Latin Literature; early medieval homiletics, monastic culture; the history of the book; the Classical Tradition in literature, post-classical experiences of Rome and Italy, and the pre-modern in new media.
Education
- - Ph.D,
  - King’s College London,
  - 1997
- - M.A. in Classics,
  - King’s College London,
  - 1991
- - B.A. in Classics, First Class Honors,
  - King’s College London,
  - 1990
Awards, Honors and Distinctions
- - Langford Lectureship,
  - Duke University,
  - 2007 - 2008
- - A.W. Mellon Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies,
  - Duke University,
  - Sept. 2004 - August 2005
- - Research Fellowship at the University College of London,
  - funded by the (British) Arts and Humanities Research Board to work intensively on the Festus Lexicon Project based at University College of London.,
  - Aug. 1, 2003-July 31, 2004
- - Grant,
  - Duke University Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research,
  - 2002-03
- - Duke Award fro New Research Initiatives in the International Field,
  - 2000
- - Scholarship,
  - British School at Rome,
  - 1996
- - Frances A. Yates Fellowship,
  - Warburg Institute, London,
  - 1995-96
- - Travel Grant,
  - British Academy,
  - Spring 1993
- - Ph.D. Funding,
  - British Academy,
  - 1991-94
- - M.A. Funding,
  - British Academy,
  - 1990-91
Selected Publications
- - with
  - F. Glinister, J. North et al.
  - Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society.
  - Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Special Supplement,
  - 2007.
- - with
  - Louise Rice, Clare Woods.
  - Domenico Allegri: Music for the Thesis Defence of Ilario Frumenzio (Rome, 1617).
  - in Recent Researches in the Music of the Music of the Baroque,
  - Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions,
  - 2004.
- - C. Woods.
  - "A contribution to the King's Library: Paul the Deacon's epitome of Festus' De verborum significatu."
  - Verrius, Festus and Paul: Lexicography, Scholarship and Society.
  - Ed. F. Glinister, C. Woods with J. North and M. Crawford.
  - 2007.
  - 222-276.
- - "Six New Sermons by Hrabanus Maurus on the Virtues and Vices."
  - in Revue Bénédictine
  - 107
  - (1997)
  - :
  - 280-306.
- - Review of: Mario de Nonno, Paolo de Paolis (eds.) Manuscripts and the Tradition of Grammatical Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance (2 vols), Cassino, 2000.
  - Classical Review
  - 55
  - .1
  - (2005)
  - :
  - 165-167.
  - (Proceedings of a Conference held at Erice, 16-23 October 1997, as the 11th Course of International School for the study of Written Records)
- - Review of Bengt Lofstedt (ed), Hrabani Mauri Expositio in Matthaeum CCCM 174-174A.
  - Turnhout: Brepols, 2000 in Journal of Medieval Latin
  - 13
  - (2004)
  - :
  - 271-274.
- - Review of A. Moscadi, Il Festo Farnesiano.
  - Classical Review
  - 52
  - .1
  - (2002)
  - :
  - 197-198.
- - Review of F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (eds), Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1996.
  - Medium Aevum
  - LXVII
  - .2
  - (1998)
  - :
  - 316-318.
- - "Hrabanus Maurus, Sermons for Haistulf of Mainz."
  - Current Project.
  - (Annotated translation of Hrabanus' sermonary, with scholarly translation.)
- - "Ezekiel and the Articulation of anxiety: Jerome, Gregory the Great and Rome under Attack."
  - Current Project.
  - (Article)
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Teaching
- CS117
  - Myth in Literature
- CS321
  - Seminar in Latin Palaeography
- CS196S
  - Rome: City and Symbol
- CS240
  - Literary Culture of the Latin Middle Ages