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felsonnancy@gmail.com, PHONE: (706) 254-0424
Current
activity (11/6/2022)
Now long retired, I’m living in an apartment in Dobbs Ferry, NY, about thirty minutes north of Manhattan. I’ve avoided contracting COVID so far. I turn 80 in January and am feeling pretty peppy. I have completed a number of academic projects in the last year:
1. a chapter called “Epilogue” for the second edition of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics an online publication that has recently appeared on the website of the Center for Hellenic Studies.
2.
an essay entitled “Eurycleia:
The Odyssey’s Best Supporting Character,” to be
published in a forthcoming special issue of SKENE: Journal
of Theatre and Drama Studies on the topic of Nurses in
Theatre.
3.
an essay on Book 21 of the Odyssey for The
Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey, ed. Joel P.
Christensen.
4.
a talk
entitled “His line, her turn:
stopping at the garden gate in Archilochus’ Erotic Fragment’ for a Conference in honor of Seth L. Schein, held
in May 2022 at the University of Chicago, co-organized by Alex
Purves and Sara Nooter.
5.
a talk
entitled “Odysseus as mentor,” delivered at the University of
Sydney, Australia in April 2022.
6.
a
presentation on Zoom with Joel Christensen, sponsored by the
Center for Hellenic Studies, on Euripides’ Ion May 18m
2022 (a video is available).
I’ve also been attending a reading group on
“Feminism and Hannah Arendt” for the last two years, sponsored
by the Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College. And I spent a month
in Australia, where my son Alex and his family currently live. Sabrina and family
live in Jackson Heights, Queens; Rachel on the west coast in
Eugene, Oregon, and Joe and his family in Maryland. I am currently
spending the month in Paris, Cambridge, and London, and am
reconnecting with collaborators Fiona Macintosh, Alex
Silverman, and Helen Eastman, with whom I worked on a
“Performing Pindar” project two years ago. I’m hoping to
convince them to develop another performance piece. I miss my students
and colleagues at UGA.
Published Works
Book
Regarding
Penelope: From Character to Poetics, second edition 2022
[1994 original. Princeton UP].
Contextualizing Classics:
Ideology, Perforance,
Dialogue. Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto (edited
by
Thomas M. Falkner, Nancy Felson, and David Konstan). 1999. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:
Lanham. NY. Oxford.
Selected Articles
Appropriating Ancient Greek Myths: Strategies and Caveats,
Studies in Gender and Sexuality 17,2, 2016, pp. 126-31
Bakhtinian Alterity, Homeric
Rapport, Arethusa,26,2, 1993, Bakhtin
and Ancient Studies: Dialogues and Dialogics, pp. 159-71
Children
of
Zeus, in the Homeric Hymns, Generational Succession
In Andrew Faulkner, ed., The Homeric Hymns:
interpretive essays (Oxford University Press 2011)
254-79.
-
Deixis
in
Linguistics and Poetics with Jared S. Klein. In Encyclopedia
of Greek Linguistics and Language Vol. I (2014)
429-33.
Eco's Semiotics, a Clasicist's
Perspective, Helios n.s.
6,2, 1978-79, pp. 17-32
Epinician
Apollo
in Story Tme: Pythian 9,
Olympian 6 and Pythian 3 In L. Athanassaki, V. Karasmanis, R. Martin, J.
Miller, eds. Apolline Politics and Poetics. Athens: European Cultural
Centre of Delphi (2009) 149-68.
Epinician
Ideology
at the Phaeacian Games: Odyssey Book 8 97-265. in
Contests and Rewards in the Homeric Epics, Proceedings of
the 10th International Symposium on the Odyssey,
2004, pp. 129-43
The
Epinician
Speaker in Pindar's First Olympian: Toward a Model for
Analyzing Character in Ancient Choral Lyric, Poetics
Today. 5.2, "The Construction of Reality in Fiction,"
Duke UP, 1984, pp. 377-97
Gender and Homeric Epic, with
Laura Slatkin, In Robert
Fowler, ed., Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge UP: 2004,
pp. 91-114 (nominated twice for outstanding feminist
article of the year).
Introduction
to
the Poetics of Deixis, Arethusa 37.3, 2004, pp.
253-66.
Introduction: Why Classics and
Semiotics? Arethusa, 16.1/2, 1983, pp.
5-14.
Many Meanings, One Formula, and the
Myth of the Aloades, with
Harriet M. Deal, Semiotica
29-1/2, 39-52,
Meleager and the Motifemic Analysis of Myth: A
Response, Arethusa 17.2 1984, pp.
211-22.
Meleager and Odysseus: A Structural
and Cultural Study of the Greek Hunting-Maturation Myth,
Arethusa 16,1/2, 1983, pp. 137-71.
Narrative Structure in Pindar's Ninth Pythian, The
Classical World, 71,6, 1978, pp. 353-67.
Nostos, Tisis
and Two Forms of Dialogism in Homer's Odyssey, with
Laura Slatkin. In Crime
and Punishment in Homeric and Archaic Epic, Proceedings
of the 12th International Symposium on the Odyssey,
Ithaca, 2013. pp. 211-22.
Paradigms of Paternity: Fathers,
Sons, and Athletic/Sexual Prowess in Homer's Odyssey,
In Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and Its
Legacy in Honor of Dimitris N. Maronitis, Franz
Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 1999, pp. 89-98.
The Partnership of Zeus and Gaia in
Hesiod's Theogony, In Gods and Mortals in Greek and
Latin Poetry, Studies in honor of Jenny Strauss Clay,
ed. by Lucia Athanassaki et al. Ariadne, Journal of the
School of Philosophy of the University of Crete, supplement
series 2, 2018, pp. 57-80.
Penelope's Perspective: Character
from Plot. In J.M. Bremer, I.J.F. de Jong, and J. Kalff,
eds., Recent Trends in Homeric Interpretation
(Amsterdam 1988) 61‑83.
Pindar's Creation of Epinician
Symbols: Olympian 7 and 6, In special issue of The
Classical World 74.2, 1980, Symbolism in Greek
Poetry, pp. 67-87.
Plot Structures and Semantic
Resonances in Ancient Greek 'Almost Incest' Narratives,
in Structuralisms(s) Today, ed. by Veronika Ambros et
al. 2009. Paris, Prague, Tartu. pp. 121-36.
The
Poetic
Effects of Deixis in Pindar's Ninth Pythian Ode, Arethusa
37, pp. 365-89.
Radical Semantic Shifts in Archilochus. The
Classical Journal 77.1, 1981, pp. 1-8.
Semiotics
and
Classical Studies editor of Special Issue of Arethusa
16.1/2l, 1983, 277 pages.
Shaping Audience Perspectives Through
Deictic Patterns: Aeschylus' Persae,in
Philosopher Kings and Tragic Heroes ed. by Heather L.
Reid and Davide Tanasi, Parnassos Press, 2016, pp. 255-79.
Signposts
in
Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals,
In C.-A. Mihailescu and
W. Hamarneh,
eds., Fiction Updated:
Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics (Toronto UP 1997)
175-86.
The
"Savvy
Interpreter": Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's
Victory Ode, with Richard J. Parmentier, Signs and
Society 3,2, 2015, pp. 261-305.
Some
Functions
of the Demophon Episode in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,
with
Harriet M. Deal, Quaderni Urbinati di cultura Classica, NS 5,
1980, pp. 7-21
Some
Functions
of the Enclosed Invective in Archilochus' Erotic Fragment, The
Classical
Journal 74,2, 1978-79, pp. 136-41.
Teaching and Reading Classics After
9/11, Amphora 1.1, 2002, pp. 7-8.
“Thebes,
Akragas,
and Syracuse in Two of Pindar's Sicilian Odes,” Pindar
in Sicily, eds. Heather Reid and Virginia Lewis. Fonte
Aretusa: 2021, 241-70.
The Toast and the Future Prayer, Hermes
108. Bd. H. 2, 1980, pp. 248-52.
Threptra
and
Invincible Hands: The Father-Son Relationship in Iliad 24,
Arethusa 35,1, 2002, pp. 35-50.
Vicarious
Transport:
Fictive Deixis in Pindar's Pythian Four, Harvard
Studies in Classical Philology 99, 1999, pp. 1-31
Victory and Virility in the Homeric Hymn To Apollo: At Whose
Expense? In Hymnes de la Grèce
Antique, ed. by Richard Bouchon et al., Collection
de la Maison de L'Orient et de la Méditerrane
50, Série Littéraire et Philosophique 17, 2008, pp. 269-80.