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JAMES, Sharon Lynn
- Date of Birth: January 2, 1960
- Born City: Oakland
- Born State/Country: CA
- Parents: Jerry D., humanities bibliographer, University of California, Santa Cruz, & Janet Barkley J.
- Date of Death: December 28, 2023
- Death City: Chapel Hill
- Death State/Country: NC
- Married: Corry Arnold, 1987
- Education:
Cowell College, U. of California, Santa Cruz, 1982; Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), Berkeley, 1991.
- Dissertation:
“Dolcezza di figlio, pietà del vecchio padre: Parents and children in the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy (Berkeley, 1991).
- Professional Experience:
Jobs, grants, honors Hamilton, Bryn Mawr, U. of California, Santa Cruz, North Carolina, 1999-2023
- Publications:
“Establishing Rome with the Sword: Condere in the Aeneid, AJP 116 (1995) 623-37; “Slave-Rape and Female Silence in Ovid's Love Poetry,” Helios 24 (1997) 60-76; “From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence's Hecyra and Eunuchus,” Helios 25 (1998) 31-47; “Constructions of Gender and Genre in Roman Comedy and Elegy,” Helios 25 (1998) 3-16; “The Economics of Roman Elegy: Voluntary Poverty, the recusatio, and the Greedy Girl,” AJP 122 (2001) 223-53; “Future Perfect Feminine: Women Past and Present in Vergil's Aeneid,” in Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid, ed. William S. Anderson & Lorina N. Quartarone (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002) 138-46; Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2003);“Her Turn to Cry: The Politics of Weeping in Roman Love Elegy,” TAPA 133 (2003) 99-122; “A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party,” in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. William W. Batstone & Garth Tissol (New York: Lang, 2005) 269-99; “A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party,” in Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World ed. Christopher Faraone & Laura K. McClure (Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2006) 224-51; “Women Reading Men: the Female Audience of the Ars amatoria,” CCJ 54 (2008) 136-59; “Trafficking Pasicompsa: A Courtesan's Travels and Travails in Plautus' Mercator,” NECN 37 (2010) 39-50; “Ipsa dixerat: Women's Words in Roman Love Elegy,” Phoenix 64 (2010) 314-44; A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, ed. with Sheila Dillon (Chichester & Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2012); “Re-reading Propertius’ Arethusa,” Mnemosyne ser. 4, 65 (2012) 425-44; “Gender and Sexuality in Terence,” in A Companion to Terence ed. A. Augoustakis, Ariana E. Trailll, & John E. Thornburn (Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013) 175-94; “The Battered Shield: Survivor Guilt and Family Trauma in Menander’s Aspis,” in Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, ed. Peter Meineck & David Konstan (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 237-60; Women in Roman Republican Drama, ed. with Dorota Dutsch & David Konstan (Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2015; “Fallite fallentes: Rape and Intertextuality in Terence’s Eunuchus and Ovid’s Ars amatorial,” Eugesta 6 (2016) 86-111; “A comédia antiga e a vida das mulheres: encontrando a história social e vendo o presente na comédia clássica,” Phaos 19 (2019)1676-3076.
- Sources:
https://classics.unc.edu/people-3/faculty-2-2/sharon-l-james/; Corry Arnold
Photo: Dept. of Classics, University of North Carolina.