Credits, Contributors, Collaborators

Ann R. Raia is broadly trained in Greek and Latin literature, archaeology, and history, with particular interests in drama, epic, and the teaching of Latin and Greek using technology. Former long-time Director of the Honors Program, she has taught classics at The College of New Rochelle since 1964. She is the creator of the Juvenal Project, co-creator and administrator of the Iona Latin Program, and a builder on V Roma. She has served as President of the New York Classical Club and is currently President of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. She co-authored the intermediate Latin anthology Worlds of Ancient Women: A Latin Reader (Focus, 2005).

Judith L. Sebesta has taught Latin, Roman art and archaeology, and women in antiquity at the University of South Dakota since 1972 where she has received several awards for her teaching and research. Since 1993 she has presented the persona of "Claudia," a weaver in the time of Constantine, to a number of middle school classes. She focuses her research on Roman women and Roman costume and has made several international presentations on Roman costume and clothing, as well as published a number of articles on these topics. Her book publications include the Worlds of Roman Women: A Latin Reader (Focus, 2005) and, co-edited with Larissa Bonfante, The World of Roman Costume (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994 repr. 2001; review). She has served as Vice President of the American Classical League and is currently Executive Secretary of The National Committee for Latin and Greek.

Donald Connor teaches Latin and is Head of the Classics Department at Trinity School in New York City. He is currently a regional representative for the Classical Association of the Atlantic States; he was a reader for several years for the Advanced Placement Latin Examinations and a member of the Latin Test Development Committee. He has given talks at regional and national classics conferences, and has published articles in the journal Classical Outlook of the American Classical League and on the College Board website.

Edmund F. DeHoratius teaches Latin, Classical Literature, Medieval Literature, and Archaeology at Wayland High School in suburban Boston. He is the Chair of the CANE Scholarship Committee, the Past-president of the Classical Association of Massachusetts, and a member of the ACL/ APA Joint Committee for Classics in American Education. He has presented papers at state-wide, regional, and national classics conferences, and has published articles in the New England Classical Journal, the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, and Classical Journal. He has two books forthcoming from Focus Publishing: an Ovid reader and a workbook for Susan Shelmerdine's Introduction to Latin.

Chris Ann Matteo is a comparative literary critic by training, with concentrations in ancient Greek, Latin, British and World literatures. She teaches middle and high school Latin as well as classical influences on literature, art and film. At the University of Maryland, her course, The Classical Grand Tour, is sponsored by the Department of Classics. Web Editor for the Women's Classical Caucus, Chris Ann also serves on the Outreach Committees of the American Philological Association and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and is newly appointed to the Editorial Board of Amphora.

Anne Leen is Professor of Classics at Furman University in Greenville, SC, and former coordinator of Sunoikisis, the collaborative Classics Department sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). She teaches Latin and Greek language and literature, mythology, and Roman civilization. Her research interests include late Republican Latin literature, ancient rhetoric and oratory, and Roman social and cultural history. She is the author of several articles on Lucretius and Cicero.

Maria S. Marsilio is Associate Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages & Literatures and Director of the Classics Program at Saint Joseph’s University. Her teaching and research interests and specializations are in Greek and Roman epic and lyric, Roman comedy, and sexuality and gender in antiquity. She is author of Farming and Poetry in Hesiod’s Works and Days (2000), as well as articles on Hesiod, Plautus, and Catullus. She is currently exploring the theme of poverty in classical literature and is writing an article examining mendicancy and competition in Catullus and Martial. Maria has presented papers at conferences of the American Philological Association and regional meetings; she is a long-term member of the Program Committee of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

Barbara F. McManus has wide-ranging interests in ancient literature, society and culture, with particular focus on the study of women in antiquity, the history of the Classics profession in the United States, and the role of the Internet in the teaching and learning of Classics. She is currently Co-Director of The VRoma Project and treasurer of the EnCore Consortium; she has served as President of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and Vice President for Professional Matters of the American Philological Association. Barbara has contributed generously and consistently to the content of Companion from creation of activities to composition of text-commentaries, provision of digital images, editing, and consultation. The co-authors are profoundly grateful for her generous and expert support of this project.

Danielle DeLancey is an English major and Latin minor, studying for K-8 dual education certification in the class of 2009 at The College of New Rochelle. She prepared an ur-version of the Tacitus Messalina commentary as part of her final project in Ann Raia's Spring 07 course "Roman Women." A native of New Rochelle, NY, she plans to complete her Latin minor as an enhancement of her goal to teach English in Middle School.

Erin Daley is a Latin and English double major in the class of 2009 at The College of New Rochelle. She prepared an ur-version of the Vergil Camilla commentary as part of her final project in Ann Raia's Spring 07 course "Roman Women." A native of Brockton, MA, she has a passionate interest in mythology and plans to enroll in a Classics Study Abroad summer session.

Emma Fikkert is a student at the University of South Dakota pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in the major field of History and minor fields of Latin and Psychology. She drafted ur-versions of the commentaries on the Valerius Maximus passages on Amesia and Afrania as part of her final project for Judith Sebesta's Fall '07 course (Latin 491). A native of Storm Lake, IA, she plans to attend law school, earning a joint JD degree with an MA in History, furthering both of her interests.

Jeremy Lemcke is in the Honors Program at the University of South Dakota, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in History with a Latin minor. He annotated a curse tablet from Augustus Audollent and items for the bibliography. Originally from Southern Minnesota, he graduated from Sully Buttes High School in Onida, SD. After earning his degree, he plans to apply to graduate school for a Masters degree in history.

John J. Dobbins, Associate Professor of Classical Art & Archaeology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in ancient Roman art and archaeology. His research focus has been on Italy where he is the Director of the Pompeii Forum Project. He is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.

Brian K. Harvey, Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Kent State University, is the author of Roman Lives: Ancient Roman Life as Illustrated by Latin Inscriptions (Focus 2004). He has generously contributed texts and images to Companion from his book and his epigraphic website.

T. Davina McClain, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Director of Louisiana Scholars' College at Northwestern State University, was formerly at Loyola University of New Orleans. Her special areas of research are women in the ancient world and Livy. She is a member of the APA Outreach Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities, as well as Assistant Editor of Amphora for the American Philological Association.

Kathryn McDonnell is Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, Latin Language and Literature, Roman Material Culture, Women in Antiquity, Late Antiquity at the University of California in Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on Roman funerary monuments, the archaeology of slavery, and the archaeology of gender, and she is the co-director of the excavations at San Martino in Torano di Borgorose, Italy.

Beth Severy-Hoven, Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Macalester College, specializes in Roman history and the history of women in the ancient Mediterranean. Author of Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (Routledge 2003), her recent work involves the wall painting in a house in Pompeii and the roles of women in different dynasties of the Roman Empire. She supervises the January in Rome program.

Amber Skoglund completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and English at the University of South Dakota. She drafted the ur-text of the commentary to Dido's death scene from the end of Vergil's Aeneid 4 as her final project for Judith Sebesta's Fall '07 course (Latin 491). A native of Sioux Falls, SD, she is attending graduate school in Library and Information Science in preparation for a career as a librarian.

Barbara F. McManus (see full profile above), a self-taught web programmer and talented designer, is responsible for the elegant layout and vibrant colors of the Companion website, as well as for the design of templates for the text-commentaries and instruction pages. She continually enriches the website with her own customized digital photos for the Worlds and Text pages and with corrective magic for faulty coding. The co-authors are profoundly grateful for her generous and expert support of this project.

Jillian DeFour, Director of Computer Lab Operations, Academic Computing Services, The College of New Rochelle.
Crystal Gorden, Student Technology Fellow, History Department, The University of South Dakota.
Mary Job, Confidential Secretary, County of Albany, Department of Management and Budget; Web Design Consultant.