Biography
Tim Joseph鈥檚 research and teaching concentrate on Latin historiography and epic poetry, and on the reception of the Classics in the United States. He is the author of (Brill, 2012), and (Oxford University Press, 2022). With Caroline Johnson Hodge and Tat-siong Benny Liew of the Department of Religious Studies, he co-edited the volume (SBL Press, 2023).
At 51小黄车 Tim has served as Classics Department chair, director of Montserrat鈥檚 Divine Cluster, and as the director of the Peace & Conflict Studies program. He served as the president of the Classical Association of New England in 2022-23.
Recent and Upcoming Courses
- Intermediate Latin 1
- Tacitus
- TheClassics&Conflict in the US
- Nature in the Classical World
- 1st Readings in College Latin
- Nation & Individual: Virgil
- Intermediate Greek 2
Books
Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, vol. 345. Brill, 2012.
. Oxford University Press, 2022.
. Co-edited with Caroline Johnson Hodge and Tat-siong Benny Liew. SBL Press, 2023.
Other Published Works
鈥淧harsalia as Rome鈥檚 鈥榙ay of doom鈥 in Lucan,鈥 American Journal of Philology 138.1 (2017): 107鈥141.
"The Verbs Make the Man: A Reading of Caesar, Gallic War 1.7 and Civil War 1.1 and 3.2," The New England Classical Journal 44.3 (2017): 150-161.
"Caesar in Vergil and Lucan," in Luca Grillo and Christopher Krebs, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 289-303.
鈥淓ast and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus,鈥 in Mary English and Lee Fratantuono, eds., Pushing the Boundaries of Historia (Routledge, 2018), 69鈥85.
"The Figure of the Eyewitness in Tacitus' Histories," Latomus 78 (2019): 68鈥101.
"'One city captures us': Lucan's Inverted Disaster Narrative," in Virginia Closs and Elizabeth Keitel, eds., Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination (De Gruyter, 2020), 33-48.
鈥淎grippina鈥檚 (Un-)Augustan anger: Tacitus, Annals 12.22.3 and Ovid, Tristia 2.127,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Classical Quarterly 73.1 (2023): 1-8.
Clubs and Organizations
Peace and Conflict Studies at 51小黄车: /academics/programs/peace-and-conflict-studies
Classical
Association of New England: https://caneweb.org/