Alessandro Barchiesi#
| Membership Number: | 3421 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/alessandro-barchiesi.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli professor of Latin, Stanford
- 1990 - 2000 Full professor in Latin Literature, University of Verona, and Head of the Classics Department
- 1987 - 1990 associate professor in Classics, IULM University of Milan
Fields of Scholarship
- Classics
- Roman culture
- Poetry and poetics
- Reception of classics
- Literary theory
- Lyric and elegy
- Latin literature and culture
- Narrative and the novel
- Epic poetry
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Vaughn lecture in the Classics (Stanford)
- 1998 N. Wallace Lectureship (Oxford
- 2002 and 2003 Jerome Lectures, University of Michigan / American Academy in Rome
- 2001 Gray Lectures, University of Cambridge
- 2010 - 2011 Sather lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
- 2012 Martin Lectures, Oberlin College
