FACULTY
Kathleen ColemanHarvard College ProfessorProfessor of Latin kcoleman(at)fas.harvard.edu Bibliography (pdf) |
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Kathleen Coleman was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She studied at the University of Cape Town (BA 1973), the University of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (BA Hons 1975), and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (DPhil 1979). Before joining the Harvard faculty she taught at the University of Cape Town (1979-1993) and held the chair of Latin at Trinity College, Dublin (1993-1998). She is a former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. In August 2002 she delivered the 15th Todd Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney (see photos below), and in February 2003 the opening lecture in the 2003 series of Wolfson Lectures at Oxford to honor the centenary of Sir Ronald Syme. In 2003 she was appointed a Harvard College Professor. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize for Senior Faculty, awarded by the Undergraduate Council of Harvard College. In 2007 she was awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, an annual award given to Harvard faculty members in recognition of achievements in literature, history or art.
Professor Coleman is the author of Statius, Silvae IV: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 1988, re-issued in paperback by Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth, 1998) and Martial, Liber Spectaculorum: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2006), and co-editor, with J. Diggle, J. B. Hall, and H. D. Jocelyn, of F.R.D. Goodyear. Papers on Latin Literature (Duckworth, 1992). In addition to her work on Latin literature she has published numerous articles on Roman spectacle, including "Fatal charades: Roman executions staged as mythological enactments", Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990), 44-73, and "Launching into history: aquatic displays in the early Empire", JRS 83 (1993), 48-74. Her most recent publications include Bonds of danger: communal life in the gladiatorial barracks of ancient Rome (Sydney: University of Sydney, 2005); "'Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest': reality and the Roman imagination", in R. S. O. Tomlin (ed.), History and Fiction. Six Essays celebrating the Centenary of Sir Ronald Syme (London: Grime & Selwood, 2005), 40-70; and 'Martial, Book 6: a gift for the Matronalia?', in a Festschrift in honor of John Atkinson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town = Acta Classica 48 (2005), 23-35. Her review of Edward Champlin, Nero (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2003) is one of the featured reviews for 2005 on the web-page of the Journal of Roman Archaeology (http://www.journalofromanarch.com/coleman.html). She has participated in several radio programs and television documentaries about the Roman amphitheatre. Her current book-length projects are a monograph on Roman public executions for Oxford University Press, and a study of arena spectacles for Yale University Press. She is the featured "Scientist on the Spot" on the Science Buzz feature at the Science Museum of Minnesota for August-September 2007 (http://www.smm.org/buzz/museum/ask/coleman/questions#answers). Professor Coleman is a member of the editorial boards of The American Journal of Philology, Exemplaria Classica, Mnemosyne and Mnemosyne Supplements, a member of the Comité scientifique of the Fondation Hardt in Vandoeuvres, Switzerland, and co-editor with Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford) of a new series, Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature, for Oxford University Press (USA). She is Chair of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship Committee of the American Philological Association. At lectures in Australia (2002) and England (2007).Return to Faculty Index |
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