James Ker is Assistant Professor
of Classical
Studies. He holds a B.A. in Classics from the
University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley. His research
and teaching are primarily in imperial Latin literature,
ancient rhetoric and philosophy, and Greco-Roman cultural
history. 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.
