Dan Curley

Professor and Chair of Classics   

Office: Filene Hall 212
Telephone: 518-580-5463
Email: dcurley@skidmore.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Washington (1999)
• A.M., Washington University in Saint Louis (1991)
• B.A., Beloit College (1988)

Doctoral dissertation:

• Metatheater: Heroines and Ephebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Director, S. Hinds)

Research interests:

• Latin poetry of late republic and early empire
• Publius Ovidius Naso and his reception
• Rome and Roman topography through the ages
• Greek and Roman drama, especially tragedy
• Ancient biography and life-writing
• Classical myth on screen

Selected publications:

• (under contract for Wiley-Blackwell) Classical Myth on Film
• “Binge for Me, O Muse: Episodes, Books, and Cycles.” In A. Augoustakis and M. Cyrino, ed.  Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (Bloomsbury). 13–23. 2022.
• “A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic.” In A. Potter and H. Gardner, ed. Ancient Epic in Filmand Television (University of Edinburgh Press, 2022) 17–32.
• “‘Benefits of a Classical Education’: The Dynamics of Classical Allusion in ABC’s Revenge.” A. Potter et al., ed. New Voices in Classical Reception Studies: Conference Proceedings Volume Two (Open University, UK). 2020.
• Conditional Future Perfect: Poems. Wolfson Press. 2019.
• “The Hero in a Thousand Pieces: Antiheroes in Recent Classical Cinema.” In A. Augoustakis and S. Raucci, ed. Epic Heroes on Screen (U. Edinburgh Press) 173–90. 2018.
• Tragedy in Ovid. Cambridge University Press. 2013.