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Lorenzo Garcia, Jr. - Assistant Professor of Classics
On Sabbatical
Contact Information
Ortega Hall 351C
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Fax: (505) 277-3599
Email: lfgarcia@unm.edu
Educational History
2007, 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.
2002, M.A., in Classics, University of California, Los Angeles.
2000, 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.
1997, Certificate of Completion, Ancient Greek Summer Intensive Course, University of Texas, Austin.
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.
Research 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.
Particular Research Topics
- Homeric Epic
- Early Greek Poetics
- Mythology
- Narratology
- Film Theory
Selected Publications
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. (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.
Department of Classics Perspective Graduate Student Welcome Lecture, UCLA. (March 2004).
- Writing the God: The Distanced Epiphany in Callimachus’ Hymns.
Department of Classics Summer Colloquia Series, UCLA. (August 2002).
- Hermes ἀγώνιος: Parody in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.
Department 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. (April 2001).
- Seductions Sexual and Textual:
The Sirens’ Song in Homer and Plato.
Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe. (October 1999).
- Seductions Sexual, Textual, and Narrative:
The Sirens’ Song in Homer, Plato, and Blanchot.
Department 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)
Awards
- Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2005–2006),
UCLA teaching assistantship.
- Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA (2005–2006)
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA (2005-2006)
- Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA (2003–2004)
- Eugene Cota–Robles Fellowship, UCLA (2000–2004)
- Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA (2001)
- Regents Stipend, UCLA (2000)
Activities
- Classical Association of the Middle West and South,
Vice President for the state of New Mexico (2007- )
- Committee for the Promotion of Latin,
Vice President for the state of New Mexico (2007- )
- Graduate Affairs Committee, UNM, Department of FLL (2009- )
Teaching Interests
- Early Greek Poetry
- Greek Literary Culture
- Film Theory
- Rhetoric
Representative Courses
- CLST 204 - Ancient Greek Civilization
- CLST 334 - Homeric Cinematography
- CLST 334 - Homer, Hesiod, and the Near East
- GREEK 301-302 - Advanced Greek (Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, Isocrates)
- LATIN 303-304 - Advanced Latin (Catullus, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Petronius, Apuleius)
