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Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Contact Information
Ortega Hall 351C
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146
Phone: (505) 277-3617
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: lfgarcia@unm.edu
Research Areas
Homeric Epic, Early Greek Poetics, Narratology & Film Theory
Educational History
| May 1996 | B.A., in Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM. Honors Thesis: “Reading and Imitation: An Analytic and Interpretive Study of Don Quixote,” directed by Dr. Sally Dunn. |
| August 1997 | Certificate of Completion, Ancient Greek Summer Intensive Course, University of Texas, Austin. |
| May 2000 | M.A., M.A., in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Master’s Thesis: “Reading Plato Reading Homer: Intertextual Studies in Plato and Homer,” directed by Dr. Monica Cyrino. |
| June 2007 | M.A., in Classics, University of California, Los Angeles. |
| June 2002 | Ph.D., in Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, Dissertation: “Homeric Temporalities: Simultaneity, Sequence, and Duration in the Iliad,” directed by Dr. Ann L. T. Bergren. |
Projects and Interests
Lorenzo is currently working on articles on the political dimensions of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the semiotics of food in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis, and gift exchange in Book 4 of Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War. He is also working on revising his dissertation into two monograph projects: one on time and the forces of decay in the Iliad, and one applying film practice and theory to a reading of the “visual” elements in the Homeric poems.
Awards and Activities
Lorenzo is the winner of the prestegious Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2005–2006), for his work as a teaching assistant at UCLA, and has been awarded several fellowships and scholarships in his studies at UCLA, UNM, and St. John’s College.
He is acting as the Vice President for Membership Recruitment for CAMWS for the state of New Mexico (2007-2008).
Papers and Conferences
Violated Economies: Iliadic Exchange in Robert D. Webb’s White Feather (USA, 1955). Annual meeting of the Classical Association for the Middle West and South, Tucson, AZ (April 2008).
Telling Time in the Iliad: The Decay of Ships and the Semantics of “Rotting.” Annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago (January 2008).
Mise en scène , Frame, Shot: Homer’s “Focalization.” Homer and His Worlds, Graduate Student Conference, New York University (March 2007).
Homeric Montage: Cinematic Simultaneity in the Iliad. Annual meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego (January 2007).
Homo inter homines : Trimalchio and the Semiotics of Ambition in the Cena Trimalchionis. Guest Lecture, UCLA (May 2005).
Recuperating Homeric Temporalities: Sequence, Simultaneity and Narrative Perspective . Dept. of Classics Perspective Graduate Student Welcome Lecture, UCLA (March 2004).
Writing the God: The Distanced Epiphany in Callimachus’ Hymns. Dept. of Classics Summer Colloquia Series, UCLA (August 2002).
Hermes ἀγώνιος: Parody in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Dept. of Classics Summer Colloquia Series, UCLA (August 2001).
A Platonic Pseudology: Re–examining the Hippias Minor. Annual meeting of the Classical Association for the Middle West and South, Provo UT (April 2001).
Seductions Sexual and Textual: The Sirens’ Song in Homer and Plato. Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe, NM (October 1999).
Seductions Sexual, Textual, and Narrative: The Sirens’ Song in Homer, Plato, and Blanchot. Dept. of Foreign Language and Literature Graduate Student Association Colloquium, UNM (April 1999).
Cultural Kidnapping: Homer, Graffigny, Jarmush and Derrida, co–presented with Dr. Lorraine Piroux. UNM Cultural Studies Colloquium, Albuquerque (December 1998)