Alessandro Barchiesi#
| Membership Number: | 3421 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/sites/all/files/cv/Barchiesi%20CV.US%202008.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1987-90 associate professor in Classics, IULM University of Milan
- 1990- 2000 full professor in Latin Literature, University of Verona, and Head of the Classics Department
- 2000- professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli professor of Latin, Stanford
Fields of Scholarship
- Epic poetry
- Narrative and the novel
- Latin literature and culture
- Reception of classics
- Roman culture
- Classics
- Poetry and poetics
- Literary theory
- Lyric and elegy
Honours and Awards
- Vaughn lecture in the Classics (Stanford, 1997)
- N. Wallace Lectureship (Oxford, 1998);
- Jerome Lectures, University of Michigan / American Academy in Rome (2002
- and 2003),
- Gray Lectures, University of Cambridge (2001)
- Sather lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, 2010-11
- Martin Lectures, Oberlin College, 2012
