Dr Enrica Sciarrino
Position
Senior Lecturer
Administration
Department Co-ordinator
BA(Hons) Co-ordinator
Qualifications
- Laurea con lode (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)
- M.A., Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Room
Room 615
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8574
enrica.sciarrino@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Classics
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Background
While she was an undergraduate in Bologna, Enrica received an ERASMUS scholarship from the European Community to study Linguistics and Ancient History for a year at the Universiteit te Utrecht (The Netherlands). After her Laurea, she moved to Berkeley where she received her Master in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Classics in 2002. During her years as a graduate student at Berkeley, she taught Italian I and II (1994, 1995), Intensive Latin (1996, 1998), Roman Civilization (1997), Classic Myths (1998), Ancient Epic (2000). Furthermore, she was Director of the Berkeley Latin Summer Workshop in 1999. In 1997 she held a Dissertation Mellon Fellowship and in 2001 she was one of Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors for a number of years. She was the University of Canterbury representative on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies and was the Convenor of the 29th Meeting of the Society in January 2008. She also holds a UC Post-graduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching (2011).
Academic Grants, Awards and Honours
- University of Canterbury Research Grant, 2011
- Canterbury Fellow at Oxford, 2010
- Plumer Visiting Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2010
- University of Canterbury, College of Arts, Research Grant, 2008
- Nominated by the Students Association for Outstanding Lecturer Award, 2006
- University of Canterbury Research Leave, 2006
- Berkeley Research Grant, 2001
- Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001
- Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1997
- Graduate Division Fellowship, 1996
Undergraduate Courses
* the list includes courses in which Enrica has been involved in the past years
- CLAS104: Greek Mythologies
- CLAS105: Roman Mythologies
- CLAS112: Roman History
- CLAS144: Elementary Latin A
- CLAS145: Elementary Latin B
- CLAS244: Intermediate Latin Authors
- CLAS219/319: Sport and Leisure in the Ancient World
- CLAS234: Intermediate Greek Authors
- CLAS307: Roman Social History
- CLAS310: Writing in Chains: Literature and Slavery in Ancient Rome
- CLAS316: Roman Law: Theory and Practice (2009)
Graduate Courses
- CLAS403: Unprepared Translation form Latin
- CLAS450: Historiography
- CLAS416: Prescribed Latin Texts
- CLAS460: Approaches to Classical Studies
Thesis Supervision and Examination
Masters Theses
(Supervisor) Elizabeth Lochhead, Translation Practices in Ennius’ Poetry, 2010.
(Associate Supervisor) Anna Milne, Sacerdos et Predicator: Franciscan ‘Experience’ in the Cronica of Salimbene de Adam, 2009.
(External Examiner) Matthew Sibley, The Verrines: Cicero's Masterful Prosecution, Hortensius' Hypothetical defense and the false Conclusions of Grain production Models, 2009.
(External Examiner) Sarah, Midford, The Triumph of Ambition: the Evolution of the Roman Triumphal Honours from Ephemeral Spectacle to Enduring Monument. The University of Melbourne, 2008.
(Co-supervisor) Siobhan O’Rourke, Latin as a Threatened Language in Early Fourteenth Century Florence, 2006.
Honours Theses
Chelsea Mitchell, The Portrayal of Octavia, the Anti-Neronian Tradition and Roman Exemplary culture, 2011.
Alison McKay, Misuse of the Truth: Oath-Giving and Family Dysfunction in Euripides' Hippolytus, 2011.
Hannah, Frude, Trimalchio and His Slaves: A Study of Attitudes in the Cena Trimalchionis, 2009.
Stephanie, Kaefer, A Linguistically-oriented Study of Pompeian Graffiti, 2009.
Anna Milne, The Ties that Bind: Power, Ideology and Formalism in the Early Roman Empire, 2007.
Diane Ravenwood, “Death Becomes Her”: The Male Appropriation of the Myth of Lucretia, 2007.
Jamie Biggs, What were They Thinking? A Look into the Life of the Roman Gladiator and What would make Free Men Choose to Become One, 2007.
Research Interests
- Latin literature
- Historiography
- Roman socio-cultural history
- Translation theories and practices
- Performance studies and sociology of genres
- Slavery and literature
University Services
College of Arts, Teaching and Learning Committee
College of Arts, Marketing and Outreach Committee
College of Arts, Pacific Working Group
Other Activities
Organiser of Classics Day
Publications
Books
- Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose. From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011.
- with S. McElduff (eds), A Sea of Languages: Complicating the History of Western Translation.
St Jerome Publishing, 2011.
- Cato the Censor’s Oratorical Fragments. Texts, Translation, and Commentary. (in progress)
Click on books to view sample chapters
Chapters in Books
- “What ‘lies’ behind Phaedrus’ Fables?” K.O. Chong-Gossard,A. Turner, F. Verveat (eds.) Public and Private Lies: The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill (2010) 231-248.
- “The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus: Roman Oratory Before Cicero.” W.J. Dominik and J. Hall (eds.) A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Oxford: Blackwell (2007) 54-66.
- “A Temple for the Professional Muse: the Aedes Herculis Musarum and Cultural Shifts in Second -Century BC Rome” in A. Barchiesi, J. Rüpke, and S. Stephens, eds. Rituals in Ink. Stuttgart (2004) 45-56.
Refereed Articles
- “Of Models and Methods: Historical Truth and Literary Fiction Reconsidered.” Under consideration by Phoenix.
- “The Introduction of Epic in Rome: Cultural Thefts and Social Contests.” Arethusa, 39.3 (2006) 449-469.
- “Putting Cato the Censor’s Origines in Its Place.” Classical Antiquity 23.2 (2004) 323-357.
- “Note critiche sul lavoro di Alexander Melville Bell intorno alla classificazione delle vocali.” Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 24 (1995) 289-295.
Other
- W.Fitzgerald and E. Gowers (eds), Ennius Perennis. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume 31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2007): Review article for Scholia Reviews ns 18 (2009) 14 (http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews).
- “Marcus Porcius Cato” (by invitation) Literary Encyclopedia (see, literaryencyclopedia.com [2500 words]), 2007.
Conferences
29th Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, Christchurch, 27th January – 31st January 2008.
Interpreting the WOR(L)D: The theory and practice of translation in Rome.
Panel organizer with S. McElduff (U. of British Columbia), 139th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago January 3-6 2008.