FACULTY
Ben TippingAssistant Professor of the Classicsbtipping(at)fas.harvard.edu |
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Ben Tipping was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. He studied at Magdalen College (BA 1993; MSt 1994), St Hugh's College, and Jesus College (DPhil 2000), Oxford. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford (1998-2000). Before Joining the Harvard faculty, he taught Roman Republican and Imperial literature to all levels of undergraduate students at various colleges in Oxford University (1994-2000), including Magdalen College, where he was a Junior Lecturer (1994-7); and he was a member of faculty in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham (2000-4). Ben Tipping is a Latinist and works principally on Roman epic. He expects to publish his doctoral thesis, Exemplary Roman Heroism in Silius Italicus' Punica, with Oxford University Press, as an Oxford Classical Monograph. He also has a contract with Duckworth to publish another book, Lucan's De bello civili: The Politics of an Anti-Epic, which is due to be submitted by 31 December 2006. Two of his essays, "Middling Epic?: Silius Italicus' Punica", and "Haec tum Roma fuit: Past, Present, and Closure in Silius Italicus' Punica", are to be published in forthcoming collections. He has also agreed to contribute material to Silver Muse, a website of Roman Imperial poetry. As further projects, he plans to pursue his interest in Roman conceptions of the hero, the non-heroic, and/or non-Roman, e.g. the foreign, divine, and female. He also plans to extend his research on theories of the hero and theories of example, exploring the relationship between Roman and subsequent models of heroism and confronting such questions as how far the notion of the hero is relevant in modern society; how far heroic ideals are trans-cultural and trans-historical; and in what ways we can, through our own historically and culturally situated conceptions of heroism, consider heroes of other times and cultures. |
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