UF Classics
Lewis A. Sussman
Professor; Chair of Classics
Ph.D. in Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1969
sussman@classics.ufl.edu


University of Florida
Classics Department
3C Dauer Hall
P.O. Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435

Office: 3C Dauer Hall
Phone: (352) 392-2075 ext. 268
Fax: (352) 846-0297


AREAS OF RESEARCH:
Roman rhetoric and oratory

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
  • The Elder Seneca, special supplement to Mnemosyne, 51, E.J. Brill, publisher: Leiden, Netherlands, 1978 (187 pp.)
  • The Major Declamations Attributed to Quintilian; in the series Studien zur klassischen Philologie, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, and New York, 1987 (257 pp.)
  • The Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus: Text, Translation, and Commentary; special supplement to Mnemosyne, 133, E.J. Brill, publisher; Leiden, Netherlands, 1994 (258 pp.)
  • Articles:
  • "Early Imperial Declamation," Speech Monographs, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 1970, pp. 135- 151.
  • "The Artistic Unity of the elder Seneca's First Preface and the Controversiae as a Whole," American Journal of Philology, 92 (1971) pp. 286-291.
  • "Livy on Recent Events in California," Classical World 64 (1971) 254.
  • "The Elder Seneca's Discussion of the Decline of Roman Eloquence," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 5 (1972) pp. 195-210.
  • "Arellius Fuscus and the Unity of the Elder Seneca's Suasoriae," Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 120 (1977), pp. 303-323.
  • "Latin and Basic Skills: A Suggestion So Old That It s New," Classical Journal 73 (1977). pp. 346-352
  • "A Critical Bibliography on The Elder Seneca and Declamation Since 1900," solicited by, Aufsteig und Niedergang der romischen Welt for Vol. ii, Sprache und Literatur (Principat). (De Gruyter Berlin, 1984), Bd. 32, Teil 1, pp. 557-577.
  • "The Research, Publication, Advancement Triangle and the Teaching of Classical Civilization," in P. Culham and L. Edmunds (eds.), Classics: A Profession in Crisis (University Press of America: 1989) pp. 107-116.
  • "Antony as a Miles Gloriosus in Cicero's Second Philippic," Scholia: Natal Studies in Classical Antiquity NS Vol. 3 (1994) pp. 53-83.
  • "Sons and Fathers in the Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian," Rhetorica: A Journal for the History of Rhetoric (publ. by the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vol. XIII, No. 2 (Spring 1995) pp. 179- 192.
  • "Antony the Meretrix Audax: Cicero's Invective in Philippic 2.44-46," forthcoming in Eranos (22 pp.)
  • "Interpreting Racism in Calpurnius Flaccus Declamatio 2: The Evidence of Ovid Amores 2. 7- 8 and Juvenal Satire 6, in Werner Schubert (ed.) Ovid--Werk und Wirkung (Festschrift: Michael von Albrecht) (Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main; in press). 15 pp.

  • ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
  • Teaching Assistant; part-time Instructor, University of North Carolina (1965-69)
  • Lecturer, City University of New York, Summer, 1969
  • Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California, Irvine (1969-76); Chair (1972-75)
  • Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida (1976- 1994),
  • Participating Faculty, University of Florida Center for Greek Studies (1981 -)
  • Visiting Professor, Aegean Institute (Summer 1982) Poros, Greece
  • Professor of Classics, University of Florida (1994--) Chair of Classics (1993--)

  • HONORS AND AWARDS:
  • University of North Carolina Teaching Fellow, 1968-69.
  • Listed, Dictionary of American Scholars.
  • Listed, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership (American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, NC; 1988).
  • Listed, Who's Who in the South and Southwest (24th, 25th, & 26th ed.)
  • Listed, Marquis Who's Who in the World (13th ed.)
  • Listed, Who's Who in American Education (5th ed.)
  • Listed, Dictionary of International Biography (forthcoming 24th ed.)
  • State University System of Florida, Teaching Improvement Program Award for Quality and Productivity in Teaching ($5,000 added to salary base) 1994
  • Listed, Men of Achievement (17th ed., 1996)

  • FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS:
  • University of California, Humanities Institute Grant, 1971.
  • University of California Graduate Council Research and Travel grants (annually, 1969- 1976).
  • University of Florida Humanities Council Summer Grant, Summer 1977.
  • Faculty participant in, and associated with, the National Endowment for the Humanities Educational Development Grant to the University of Florida, "Humanities Perspective on the Professions." Responsibility for course development and teaching in business. also health related professions and engineering, 1976-1982.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Surmmer Seminar in "Important Problems in Etruscan Studies, at the American Academy in Rome, 1979, Prof. Emeline Richardson, Director, ($2,500).
  • Division of Sponsored Research, Roman rhetoric project Fall 1979 (approx. $4,000).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities & University of Florida Humanities Perspeclives on the Professions Syllabus Preparation, Summer 1981.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities invited participant, Conference on Teaching the Ancient World, Baltimore, October 1981.
  • Sabbatical Leave, academic year 1982-1983, 1989-1990; University of Florida.
  • University of Florida Research Development Award for "Ovid and Eloquence" Project. Summer, 1989 ($7,268), deferred to Summer, 1990
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst grant for travel and subsistence in the Federal Republic of Germany while performing research on "Ovid and Eloquence" Project at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute (Munich), and the University of Würzburg. Fall, 1989 (DM 3,000)
  • University of Florida Professional Development Leave (one semester at full pay) for Fall, 1996

  • MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • Secretary-Treasurer, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (1977 - 1978)
  • Committee for the Promotion of Latin (C.A.M.W.S.) (1981)
  • Editor, Advertising, Classical Journal ( 1979 - 1982)
  • Vice-President, Classical Association of Florida (1977 - 1980)
  • American Classical League Methodology Committee (1980 - 1984)
  • Advisory Council, American Academy in Rome (1980 - )
  • Vice-President, American Institute of Archaeology, UF chapter (1985 - 1986) Awards Committee (C.A.M.W.S.) (1989 - 1991), chairman (1990-1991)
  • Elected Member of the Board of Directors (CAMWS-SS) 1991-94
  • Manuscript Reader, Brill Publishing Co., Leiden, Neth. (1995); Scholia; American Journal of Philology; Southern Journal of Speech
  • First Vice President, (C.A.M.W.S.) 1995-96

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