J.E. Davis

Assistant Professor

B.A. (Brown, 1998), M.Phil. (Cambridge, 1999); PhD (University of Pennsylvania, 2007)

Interests: Augustan poetry, Ancient emotions, Roman material culture

Office: Clearihue B428

Phone: (250) 721-8520

Email: wjed@uvic.ca

Current Projects:

My research focuses on the intersection of material and literary culture in Republican and Augustan Rome. Currently, I am working on a monograph about the cultural and literary context of the fasti Praenestini, and inscribed Roman calendar located in Palestrina. I am particularly interested in how this monument interacts with contemporaneous verse calendars, such as Ovid's Fasti, and the monumental tradition of Praeneste, the town where it was dedicated. Otherwise, I am working on projects that use reader-response theory to study the representation of emotion in Roman elegy and satire. I am also at work on a more focused study of the Roman vita tradition, under the title: Terence Musagetes: Cultural Appropriation in the Roman Vita Tradition.