JAMES KER
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies,
201 Logan Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
jker@sas.upenn.edu
OFFICE HOURS Fall 2006
Tues, 12.30-2.00
263 Logan Hall
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Research
My work is mainly in the area of Latin Literature and Roman culture, with a focus on prose writing in the first century CE. At present, I am completing a book on the death of Seneca -- a primal scene of the classical tradition. Recent and forthcoming articles have dealt with Roman conceptions of time and with Seneca:
“Nocturnal Writers in Imperial Rome: The culture of lucubratio”, Classical Philology 99 (2004) 209-42
“Seneca, Man of Many Genres”, in New Directions in Seneca Studies, eds. K. Volk and G. D. Williams (New York, forthcoming)
"Roman Repraesentatio", in American Journal of Philology (forthcoming)
“Outside and Inside: Senecan Strategies”, in Writing Politics, eds. J. Garthwaite and W. Dominik (Leiden, forthcoming)
“Seneca on Self-Examination: Rereading De ira 3.36 ”, in Seneca and the Self, eds. S. Bartsch and D. Wray (forthcoming)
Links
Penn Latin Curriculum
Current Courses
FALL 2006
Seneca (graduate seminar = LATN 602)
Nero and the Roman Imagination (undergraduate seminar = CLST 308)
SPRING 2007
Topics in Latin Literature (= LATN 309)
Latin Prose Composition (= LATN 430)