
Shane Hawkins
Associate Professor, Director of the College of the Humanities
Degrees: | BA, University of Minnesota; MStudies, Corpus Christi, Oxford; MA and PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill; Fulbright Vienna, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Indogermanistik. |
Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 8143 |
Email: | shane.hawkins@carleton.ca |
Office: | 300 Paterson Hall |
Website: | Browse |
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
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2021 (editor) Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press. |
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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.