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David M Christenson

  • Professor, French and Italian
  • Professor, Religious Studies / Classics
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-5326
  • Modern Languages, Rm. 326
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • christed@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Classical Philology
    • Harvard University
  • M.A. Classics
    • University of California at Santa Barbara
  • B.A. English Literature & Language
    • University of Michigan

Awards

  • University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Education Teaching and Mentoring Award
    • UA Graduate College, Spring 2013
  • Loeb Fellowship
    • Loeb Classical Library Fellowship, Spring 2012
    • Loeb Classical Library Fellowship, Fall 2011
  • University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Outstanding Mentor of Graduate Students
    • UA Graduate and Professional Student Council, Spring 2012
  • University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Graduate Student Advisor of the Year
    • Spring 2006

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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

2022-23 Courses

  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 432 (Spring 2023)
  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 532 (Spring 2023)
  • Roman Horror, Terror & Trauma
    CLAS 355 (Spring 2023)

2021-22 Courses

  • Latin Lit-Imperial Age
    LAT 421 (Spring 2022)
  • Latin Lit-Imperial Age
    LAT 521 (Spring 2022)
  • The City Unmasked: Roman Drama
    CLAS 351 (Spring 2022)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2022)
  • Heroes, Gods, Gore: Roman Epic
    CLAS 353 (Fall 2021)
  • Roman Horror, Terror & Trauma
    CLAS 355 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Heroes, Gods, Gore: Roman Epic
    CLAS 353 (Spring 2021)
  • Roman Drama
    LAT 430 (Spring 2021)
  • Roman Drama
    LAT 530 (Spring 2021)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2021)
  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 532 (Fall 2020)
  • The City Unmasked: Roman Drama
    CLAS 351 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Heroes, Gods, Gore: Roman Epic
    CLAS 353 (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 399 (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    CLAS 599 (Spring 2020)
  • Roman Horror, Terror & Trauma
    CLAS 355 (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2020)
  • Heroes, Gods, Gore: Roman Epic
    CLAS 353 (Fall 2019)
  • Latin Lit-Imperial Age
    LAT 521 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Ancient Roman Literature
    CLAS 301B (Spring 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    CLAS 498H (Spring 2019)
  • Roman Horror, Terror & Trauma
    CLAS 355 (Spring 2019)
  • Thesis
    CLAS 910 (Spring 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    CLAS 498H (Fall 2018)
  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 532 (Fall 2018)
  • The City Unmasked: Roman Drama
    CLAS 351 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Heroes, Gods, Gore: Roman Epic
    CLAS 353 (Spring 2018)
  • Latin Lit-Imperial Age
    LAT 421 (Spring 2018)
  • Latin Lit-Imperial Age
    LAT 521 (Spring 2018)
  • Latin Reading Course
    LAT 401 (Fall 2017)
  • Latin Reading Course
    LAT 501 (Fall 2017)
  • Readings In Greek Drama
    GRK 422 (Fall 2017)
  • Readings In Greek Drama
    GRK 522 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Clas Lit in Translation
    CLAS 250B (Spring 2017)
  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 432 (Spring 2017)
  • Literary Trans CLAS Reception
    CLAS 532 (Spring 2017)
  • Ancient Roman Drama
    CLAS 351 (Fall 2016)
  • Roman Drama
    LAT 430 (Fall 2016)
  • Roman Drama
    LAT 530 (Fall 2016)

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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.
    More info
    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. 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. 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.

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