Dr. Tyler T. Travillian

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Classics
Office Location: Carpenter Hall
Office Phone: 972-721-5368
Fax: 972-721-4088

t.travillian@gmail.com
 

Expertise

Historical Linguistics
Horace
Latin and Greek Grammar
Ovid
Palaeography
Pindar
Poetics and the Art of Translation
Textual Criticism

Assistant Director of the University of Dallas Latin in Rome Program (2005-2007)

 

Education

PhD (Classics): Boston Univeristy (2011)
Diploma in Greek Palaeography: Lincoln College, Oxford (2008)
MA (Classics): Boston University (2006)
BA (Classics-Latin and Classics-Greek): University of Dallas (2005)

Honors and Awards

American Academy in Rome
The Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Classical Studies (2011)

Boston University
Graduate Writing Fellowship (2009-2010)
Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award (2008-2009)
Robert Fitzgerald Translation Price (2008)
Presidential University Graduate Fellowship (2005-2006)

University of Dallas
Fr. Placid Award (2005)
Phi Beta Kappa (2004)
 

Recent Courses

at Boston University
Freshman Composition (Truth in Lies: The Writing of History) Fall 2009
Greek: Intermediate Prose (Summer 2010, Summer 2009)
Beginning Latin (Fall 2008, Summer 2007)
Latin: Intermediate Prose (Summer 2008)

at Suffolk University
Intermediate Greek I (Spring 2009)

Scholarship & Work in Progress

i. Dissertation Title

"Social and Literary-Historical Studies on the Corpus Priapeorum"

ii. Publications

1. "The State of the American University System." Special Issue on Universitätskulturen in Deutschland und Amerika/ University Cultures in Germany and the United States, Bildung und Erziehung, vol. 65 (2012). (forthcoming)


2. Horace Odes 3.1-3-2: Carmen or Carmina? (forthcoming, Latomus)


iii. Reviews

1. Antonio Beccadelli: The Hermaphrodite by Holt Paker. (2010). International Journal for the Classical Tradition. (forthcoming)

iv. Work in Progress

1. Dating the Corpus Priapeorum (in progress)

 

2. "From Dike to Nomos:  Concepts of 'Justice' in Aeschylus' Oresteia" (in progress)

 

3. "Jakob Balde's Dissertatio de Studio Poetico, translation and commentary" (in progress)

v. Invited Talks

1. "Echoes from Antiquity, or the History of a Text" (12 April 2011), presented at University of Dallas Rome Campus

2. "The Translation of Poetry" (18 February 2005) presented as part of a panel on "The Nature of Translation" for the Divinity-School.com

3. "Pindar's Isthmian 7" (Spring 2004) presented to the American foundation for Greek Language and Culture