Mark Payne

Mark Payne

Mark Payne (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003) is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and the College. He is the author of several articles on Greek poetry and poetics from the archaic to the Hellenistic periods. His first book, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. His second book, The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination, is in press with the University of Chicago Press. He is editor of Classical Philology and a member of the University's Poetry and Poetics program.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
tel.: 773-702-2516
email: mpayne@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Books

  • In press. The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination. The University of Chicago Press.
  • 2007. Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • Forthcoming. "Pastoral: ancient"; "Choliamb"; The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Roland Greene.
  • Forthcoming. "The objects of ecphrasis." In Greek and Roman Ekphrasis (Rethymnon Classical Studies 4), edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Michael Paschalis.
  • Forthcoming. "Pastoral." In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Eldridge_._
  • Forthcoming. "Iambic theater; or, the childhood of Callimachus revisited." In The Brill Companion to Callimachus, edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens.
  • Forthcoming. "Aristotle's birds and Aristophanes' Birds." In Mélanges Suzanne Saïd, edited by Sandrine Dubel, Sophie Gotteland, and Estelle Oudot.
  • Forthcoming. "The Bucolic Fiction of Theocritus." In The Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, edited by M. P. Cuypers and James Clauss.
  • 2007. "Ideas in lyric communication: Pindar and Paul Celan." Modern Philology 105: 5-20.
  • 2006. "On Being Vatic: Pindar, Pragmatism, and Historicism." American Journal of Philology 127: 159-84.
  • 2003. "Narrative Technique in Theocritus' Idyll 12." Arethusa 36: 37-48.
  • 2001. "Ecphrasis and Song in Theocritus' Idyll 1." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 42: 263-87.
  • 2000. "Three Double Messenger Scenes in Sophocles." Mnemosyne 53: 403-18.

Reviews

  • Forthcoming. M. Eskin. Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky, Modern Philology.
  • 2004. S.A. Stephens, Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, Classical Philology 99: 267-72.

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Attic Greek (GREK 10200): Winter 2009
  • Introduction to Accelerated Attic Greek (GREK 11100): Autumn 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Greek Thought and Literature 2 (HUMA 12100): Winter 2006, 2009
  • Greek Thought and Literature 3 (HUMA 12200): Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Greek Lyric and Epinician Poetry (GREK 2/31700): Autumn 2003, Autumn 2006
  • Greek Elegy (GREK 2/31700): Autumn 2004
  • Greek Epic (GREK 2/31800): Winter 2006
  • Vergil (LAT 2/31600): Spring 2005
  • Aristophanes (GREK 2/31400): Spring 2009
  • Survey of Greek Literature 3: Introduction to Literary Theory (GREK 32900): spring 2004, 2006, 2008
  • Theocritus: Graduate Seminar (GREK 41700): Winter 2004
  • Hellenistic Poetry: Graduate Seminar (GREK 42700): Autumn 2005
  • Pindar: Graduate Seminar (GREK 45700/CMLT 42100): Spring 2009 (with David Wray)