Dr. Shane Hawkins ( He/Him )

Greek and Roman Studies, Professor, Director of the College of the Humanities

BA, University of Minnesota; M.Studies, Corpus Christi, Oxford; MA and PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill; Fulbright Vienna, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Indogermanistik.
300 Paterson Hall, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Email Dr. Shane Hawkins
613-520-2600 ext 8143

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; ancient Greek literature (esp. lyric and invective poetry); Catullus; In preparation:

Greek Iambic Poetry (Aris & Phillips).
Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek, with José Luis García Ramón (Köln), Riccardo Ginevra (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), and Michael Weiss (Cornell).

2025/2026 Courses

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

Books

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

2013 Studies in the Language of Hipponax. Bremen. — 2021 (editor) Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press.

Articles

(forthcoming) ‘Heracles’ Lyric Labours,’ in G. Harrison, ed., A Companion to Hercules (Wiley-Blackwell).
(forthcoming) ‘Hipponax and the Thargelia,’ in V. Casato and E. Prodi, eds. Hipponax the Poet. Oxford University Press.
2025 ‘Hipponax 40W/49D Μαλὶς †κονισκε† and Lydian Malis’, Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 95.1: 217-229.
2024 ‘Once More Unto the Breach: Mesostic and Epitaph in Catullus c. 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 Legacy23(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 (2011) 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 (2007) 117-124.
2006 ‘Variation in the organization of medical terms: Exploring some motivations for term choice,’ Terminology 12.1 (2006) 79-110. Co-authored with Lynne Bowker.
2005 ‘The Interchange of δ and ζ in Early Greek Epic,’ Glotta 80 (2005) 46-71.