Joseph
Farrell is Professor of Classical
Studies and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters
at the University of Pennsylvania. He received an A.B. from
Bowdoin College in 1977 and Ph.D. from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. He studies Latin
literature and Roman culture, focusing especially on Augustan
poetry. His most recent book is Latin
Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times
(Cambridge 2001). He is currently writing a new book with
the working title Juno's Aeneid: Narrativity, Metapoetics,
Dissent.
