Foreign Languages and Literatures at University of New Mexico

FLL Faculty

Lorenzo Garcia, Jr. - Assistant Professor of Classics

Lorenzo Garcia, Jr. - Assistant Professor

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.

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