Shane Hawkins

Biography

I came to Carleton in 2005. I teach Ancient Greek and Latin language courses, classical mythology, Greek literature, Greek civilization, and sometimes Old Persian and Old Norse. Since 2016 I have served as the Director of the College of the Humanities.

Research Interests

Historical and comparative Indo-European linguistics, especially Greek and Latin; Greek lyric and invective poetry; Catullus; Digital Humanities.

Currently in preparation: Greek Iambic Poetry (Aris & Philips); Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek (with R. Genevra, J. L. García Ramón, and M. Weiss).

2025/2026 Courses

• GREK 3900A: Advanced Greek (F)
• HUMS 1300A: Classical Literature and Its Reception (W)

Publications

2021 (ed.) Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press.

2013  Studies in the Language of Hipponax. Bremen.

2025 ‘Hipponax 40W/49D Μαλίς †κονισκε† and Lydian Malis’, Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 94:217-229.

2024  ‘Once more unto the breach: mesostic and epitaph in Catullus poem 60’, Classical Quarterly 74 (2):583-595.

2024 ‘Food for the Lewd: Ananius fr. 5 & 6W’, American Journal of Philology 145(4):465-495.

2024 ‘Hammer of the gods: The heavy metal reception and reforging of Thor’, Metal Music Studies 10(3):217-232. Co-authored with Timothy Pettipiece.

2023 ‘Aristophanes Clouds 344 and some prominent noses’, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 133:67-86.

2019 ‘Archilochus 222W and 39W: Allusion and Reception, Hesiod and Catullus’, Philologus 163(2):16-46.

2018 ‘Catullus c. 11 and the Iambic Herald’, Paideia: rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria 73:1605-1616; special issue in honor of Giuseppe G. Biondi, Catullus: models, manuscript tradition, Fortleben.

2018 ‘Selig wer auch Zeichen gibt: Leibniz as Historical Linguist’, The European Legacy 23(5):510-521.

2014  ‘Catullus c. 60: Lesbia, Medea, Clodia, Scylla,’ American Journal of Philology 135(4):559-598.

2012 ‘A Linguistic Analysis of the Vase Inscriptions of Sophilos’, Glotta 88:122-165.

2012 ‘The Oscanism salaputium in Catullus 53’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 142(2):329–353.

2011 ‘Catullus’ Furius’, Classical Philology 106.3:254-260.

2010 ‘Greek and Anatolian Languages in the Archaic and Classical Ages’, E. Bakker, ed. Blackwell’s A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language. Oxford. 213-227.

2007 ‘IvE 106: ὀρειογυάδων καὶ ἐνέδρας’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 162:117-124.

2006 ‘Variation in the organization of medical terms: Exploring some motivations for term choice’, Terminology 12.1:79-110. Co-authored with Lynne Bowker.

2005 ‘The Interchange of δ and ζ in Early Greek Epic’, Glotta 80:46-71.