Anthony Corbeill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 December 1960 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA) University of California at Berkeley (MA, Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Virginia University of Kansas |
Anthony Philip Corbeill is an American professor of Classics. He is currently the Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He was formerly a professor at the University of Kansas.[1][2]
Academic history
Corbeill was born on 30 December 1960.[3] He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Languages from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. In addition, he has held fellowships working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and All Souls College, Oxford.[1]
Work
Corbeill has published three books, Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004), and Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015).[1] He is best known for his research concerning Roman literature and cultural history,[1] as well as publishing articles concerning grammatical gender and gesture (such as the pollice verso, of which it has been argued that Corbeill "provides the most thorough review").[4][5][6][7]
In January 2016, he won the Society for Classical Studies' Goodwin Award for his work on Sexing the World.[8]
Bibliography
Corbeill has released the following books, all through Princeton University Press:[1][9]
- Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691027395.
- Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691074948.
- Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691163222
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Dr. Anthony Corbeill". University of Kansas. 2013-05-20. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ "Anthony Corbeill". University of Virginia. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ↑ The Library of Congress. "Corbeill, Anthony, 1960". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
- ↑ Corbeill, Anthony (2008). "Genus Quid Est?: Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 138 (1): 75–105. doi:10.1353/apa.0.0007. hdl:1808/16256. S2CID 15662125.
- ↑ "American Society for the History of Rhetoric – Performance in the History of Rhetoric" (PDF). American Society for the History of Rhetoric. November 16, 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ Corbeill, Anthony (1997). "Thumbs in Ancient Rome: Pollex as Index". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. American Academy in Rome. 42: 1–21. doi:10.2307/4238745. JSTOR 4238745.
- ↑ "The Gladiator and the Thumb". Encyclopaedia Romana. University of Chicago. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ "Goodwin Award – Anthony Corbeill". Society for Classical Studies. 2016-12-08. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Anthony Corbeill – List of Publications" (PDF). University of Kansas. Retrieved March 25, 2014.