David M Christenson

Interests

Research

Greek and Roman Theater, Women and Gender in Antiquity, Translation and Classical Reception Studies

Teaching

Greek & Latin Literatures & Cultures, Translation and Reception Studies, Trauma & Memory Studies, Ancient Slavery

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Christenson, D. M. (2020). Plautus: Pseudolus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Christenson, D. M. (2019). Plautus, Casina: Performance and Reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
• Christenson, D. M. (2016). Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence (2nd edition). Hackett Publishing.
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  Revised original publication (Focus Classical Library, 2010) for 2nd edition with Hackett.
• Christenson, D. M. (2015). Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Christenson, D. M. (2010). Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing (The Focus Classical Library).
• Christenson, D. M. (2008). Plautus: Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, & Pseudolus. Focus Classical Library/Hackett Publishing.
• Christenson, D. M. (2000). Plautus: Amphitruo. Cambridge University Press.

Chapters

• Christenson, D. (2024). FRIGHTENINGLY FUNNY GODS: COMIC AND COSMIC SPACE IN PLAUTUS. In Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception(pp 133-56). Bloomsbury. doi:10.5040/9781350344709.ch-008
• Christenson, D. (2024). INTRODUCTION. In Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception(pp 1-8). London: Bloomsbury. doi:10.5040/9781350344709.ch-001
• Christenson, D. M. (2024). "Introduction". In Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman Literature and its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science, and History(pp 4,000 words). Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
• Christenson, D. M. (2024). "Frighteningly Funny Gods: Cosmic and Comic Space in Plautus" . In Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman Literature and its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science, and History(pp 12,000 words). Bloomsbury Academic Publishing.
• Christenson, D. M. (2021). Concocting Justice: Dicaeopolis the Cook-comedian. In Costume Changes in the Comedies of Aristophanes(pp 265-86). Illinois Classical Studies (Special Volume).
• Christenson, D. M. (2020). Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities. In A Companion to Plautus(pp 77-91). Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing.
• Christenson, D. M. (2019). Metatheatre. In The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy(pp 136-50). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Christenson, D. M. (2016). All's Well That Ends Well? Old Fools, Morality, and Plautine Epilogues. In Roman Drama and its Contexts(pp 215-29). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter Gruyter (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes).
• Christenson, D. M. (2014). A Roman Thesaurus: Religion, Marriage, Metatheater, and Concord in Aulularia. In Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, Festschrift in Honor of Professor Dimitrios Raios(pp 13-42). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 29).
• Christenson, D. M. (2013). Eunuchus. In A Companion to Terence(pp 262-80). Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Journals/Publications

• Christenson, D. (2024). The Art of Communicative Grammar. Mnemosyne, 77(1), 145-156. doi:10.1163/1568525x-bja10274
• Christenson, D. M. (2004). "Unbearding Morality: Appearance and Persuasion in Pro Caelio". Classical Journal, 100, 61-72.
• Christenson, D. M. (2002). "Superbia in Vergil's Aeneid: Who's Haughty and Who's Not?". Scholia, 11, 44-54.
• Christenson, D. M. (2001). "Grotesque Realism in Plautus' Amphitruo". Classical Journal, 96, 243-60.
• Christenson, D. M. (2001). "Callinus and militia amoris in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon". Classical Quarterly, N.S. 50, 631-2.

Presentations

• Christenson, D. M. (2015, 09-25-2015). The Anxieties of Empire? Identity Theft in Roman Comedy. Invited Lecture, University of Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: U. of Illinois Department of Classics.
• Christenson, D. M. (2015, 10-06-2015). Spinach, Bacon, and Barbarians: The Reception of Greek Comedy at Rome. University of Arizona Museum Rome Exhibition Symposium. U. of Arizona: UA Museum.
• Christenson, D. M. (2015, June). Talking Over the Play: More on Plautine Epilogues. 8th Trends in Classics International Conference on Roman Drama and its Contexts. Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University (Greece), University of Oxford (UK), British Council.

Reviews

• Christenson, D. M. (2017. Annotated Bibliography of Plautus, Amphitruo. Oxford Bibliographies in Classics.
• Christenson, D. M. (2015. A. Petrides, Menander, New Comedy and the Visual(pp (online)).
• Christenson, D. M. (2015. M. Beard, Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up(pp 388-91). Chicago.
• Christenson, D. M. (2014. F. Hurka, Die Asinaria des Plautus(pp 310-312). Cambridge, UK.
• Christenson, D. M. (2014. Sander M. Goldberg, Terence, Hecyra(pp (online)). Bryn Mawr, PA.
• Christenson, D. M. (2012. A. Sharrock, Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence(pp 430-432). Toronto.
• Christenson, D. M. (2010. M. Fontaine, Funny Words in Plautine Comedy(pp 296-298). Amherst, MA.

Others

• Christenson, D. M. (2014, June). Ancient Roman Comedy. The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235990
• Christenson, D. M. (2014, June). Plautus. The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235990
• Christenson, D. M. (2013, May). Plautus’s Aulularia. The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13462
• Christenson, D. M. (2009, June). "Terence’s Adelphoe". The Literary Encyclopedia.
• Christenson, D. M. (2009, March). "Plautus’s Truculentus". The Literary Encyclopedia.