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Monica Cyrino - Director of CL/CS & Professor of Classics
Presidential Teaching Fellow
Contact Information
Ortega Hall 347B
University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Fax: (505) 277-3599
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Educational History
1992, Ph.D., in Classical Philology, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut.
1988, M.Phil., in Classical Philology, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut.
1986, M.A., in Classical Philology, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut.
1984, B.A., in Classical Languages, University of California. Berkeley, California.
Research Interests
- Ancient Greek Poetry
- The Classical Tradition
- Classics & Cinema / Popular Culture
Selected Publications
Books
- Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World, ed. Monica S.
Cyrino. (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).
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- Aphrodite, in the series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. (Routledge 2010).
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- Rome, Season One: History Makes Television. ed. Monica S. Cyrino. (Blackwell 2008).
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- Big Screen Rome. (Blackwell 2005).
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- A Journey Through Greek Mythology. (Kendall/Hunt 2008).
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- In Pandora’s Jar: Lovesickness in Early Greek Poetry. (Lanham 1995).
Articles & Book Chapters
- “I Was Colin Farrell’s Latin Teacher.” .
In Classical Journal 107.3 (2012).
- This is Sparta!: The Reinvention of Epic in Zack Snyder’s 300 (2007)..
In The Epic Film in World Culture. ed. Robert Burgoyne. AFI Film Readers series (Routledge 2011).
- Fortune Favors the Blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander..
In Responses to Alexander. eds. Fiona Greenland and Paul Cartledge. (Wisconsin 2010).
- Classical Tradition: Film and Television..
In The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. ed. Michael Gagarin. (Oxford 2010).
- To Love and Toulouse: The Orpheus and Eurydice Theme in Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (1959) and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge (2001).
In Classical and Modern Literature 28.1. (Winter 2009).
- Atia and the Erotics of Authority.
In Rome, Season One: History Makes Television. ed. Monica S. Cyrino. (Blackwell 2008).
- Film Review: Frank Miller’s 300.
In Amphora 6.1. (2007).
- Helen of Troy.
In Troy: From Homer’s Iliad to Hollywood Epic. ed. Martin M. Winkler. (Blackwell 2007).
- She’ll Always Have Paris: Helen in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy.
In Amphora 4.1. (2005).
- Gladiator and Contemporary American Society.
In Gladiator: Film and History.
ed. Martin M. Winkler. (Blackwell 2004).
- The Identity of the Goddess in Alcman’s First Partheneion.
In Classical Journal 100.1. (2004).
Forthcoming
- “Bows and Eros: Hunt as Seduction in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.”
In Arethusa 46.1 (forthcoming 2013).
- “The City of Ancient Rome on Screen.”
In The Blackwell Companion to the City of Rome, eds. Claire Holleran and Amanda Claridge (Blackwell 2012).
- “Ancient Sexuality on Screen”
In The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, ed. Thomas K. Hubbard. (Blackwell 2013).
Awards
- American Philological Association’s Excellence in Teaching Classics Award (1998-99)
- UNM Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award (2002)
- UNM Presidential Teaching Fellowship Award (2000-2002)
- UNM College of Arts & Sciences Gunter Starkey Teaching Award (1998-1999)
- UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (1994-1995)
- Best Teacher at UNM - UNM Daily Lobo "Lo Mejor" Student Poll
(2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002,
2001, 1998, 1996)
- Best Class at UNM: Greek Mythology - UNM Daily Lobo "Lo Mejor" Student Poll
(2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002,
2001, 1998, 1996)
Teaching Interests
- Greek Mythology and Classical Tradition (to many hundreds of students!)
- Academic consultant on the History Channel’s History vs. Hollywood and Where Did It Begin?
Representative Courses
- CLST 107 - Greek Mythology
- CLST 315 - The Classical Tradition
- GREK 301-302 - Advanced Ancient Greek
- LATN 303-304 - Advanced Classical Latin
