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 (esp. Archilochus, Hipponax); Catullus; Digital Humanities. Currently in preparation:

• with Carleton students, an edition of Antonius Parthenius’ fifteenth-century commentary on Catullus.
• Greek Iambic Poetry. Aris & Philips.
• with Michael Weiss, Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek.

2024/2025 Courses

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

Books

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

Some Publications

Forthcoming

• ‘Hipponax 40W/49D Μαλίς †κονισκε† and Lydian Malis’, in Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici.
• ‘Game of Throws: Some Ritual Elements in Hipponax,’ in: V. Casato and E. Prodi, eds. Framing Hipponax. Cambridge University Press
• ‘Heracles’ Lyric Labours’, in G.W.M. Harrison, ed. A Companion to Heracles (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
• Review in BMCR of Mitchell, Stephen. Catullus: selected poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.
• 2025  ‘Once more unto the breach: mesostic and epitaph in Catullus poem 60’, Classical Quarterly 1-25.

2012-2024

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