VELVET  L. YATES

Classics Department, University of Florida
125 Dauer Hall, P.O. Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435
Dept. phone: (352) 392-2075
email: vyates@ufl.edu

EDUCATION

• Princeton University, Ph.D. in Classics (concentration in Ancient Philosophy), 1998.  Dissertation: Madman, Sophist, and Imitator: Plato's Strategies for Representing the Poet.  Director: Andrew Ford.
• Johns Hopkins University, Classics, 1992-1993.
• Florida State University, B.A. in Classics, magna cum laude, 1985.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Florida, Fall 2005-present
Distance Graduate Coordinator  Responsible for many aspects of administering graduate distance learning program in Classics, including supervision of admissions, orientation, and some aspects of student records, administration of some comprehensive exams, directing of independent studies and advising for some students, website maintenance, and acting as instructional technology liaison.

• The Glory That Was Greece (2005, 2006)
• The Grandeur That Was Rome
• Ancient Slavery (distance-learning graduate level course)
• Racism in Antiquity (distance-learning graduate level course)
• Survey of Roman Literature (distance-learning graduate level course)
• Latin Prose Composition (distance-learning graduate level course; 2007, 2008)
• Roman Religion (distance-learning graduate level course)
• Ancient Philosophy (distance-learning graduate level course)

Spring 2008: awarded grant from Provost's E-Learning Initiative to develop The Glory That Was Greece into a distance-learning course.  Pilot course to be taught in Spring 2009, with course being offered during the summer thereafter.

Freelance Technical Writer, Mountain View, CA 2004

University of California, Irvine, 2000-2004

• Classical Mythology
• Origins of Ancient Greek Society
• Elementary Greek (2000-1, 2001-2, 2002-3)
• Intermediate Greek (2002, 2003)
• Introduction to Greek Poetry: Homer (2001, 2002)
• Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry
• Intermediate Latin Prose (2000, 2003)
• Introduction to Latin Poetry: Vergil
• Intensive Latin (for graduate students)
• Intermediate Latin Poetry: Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Intermediate Latin Poetry: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
• The Trial of Socrates (upper-division writing course)
• Plato on Poetry (graduate level reading course)
• Greek Lyric Poetry (graduate level reading course)
• Greek Lyric Poetry (graduate level independent study)
• Gorgias and Plato (undergraduate and graduate level course)

Rutgers University, 1998-1999, Beginning Latin

Princeton University, 1995-1998, Assistant Instructor for Intensive Greek, Intensive Latin, Classical Mythology (twice), Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

Johns Hopkins University, 1992-1993, Beginning Latin

MCI Telecommunications, 1990-1991, Washington, D.C., Programmer/Analyst

Electronic Data Systems, 1988-1990, Washington, D.C., Programmer/Analyst

PUBLICATIONS

• "Anterastai: Competition in Eros and Politics in Classical Athens," Arethusa 38.1 (2005), pp. 33-47.
• "The Titanic Origin of Humans: the Melian Nymphs and Zagreus," GRBS 44 (2004), pp. 183-198.
• "A Sexual Model of Catharsis," Apeiron 31 (March 1998), pp. 35-57.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, M. Golden and P. Toohey (eds.), Ordia Prima 6 (2007) 214-216.
• Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial by James Colaiaco, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.09.35.
• Lyric Quotation in Plato by Marian Demos, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.06.16.
• Plato on Poetry by Penelope Murray, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.4.3.

PAPERS DELIVERED

• Presentation on UF's graduate distance learning programs in Classics, ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, November 2008.
• "Women's Gymnastics in Xenophon," read at Feminism and Classics V, May 2008.
• "Color Prejudice Among 4th-century Greek Elites," CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 2006.
• "The Feminized Craftsman in Greek Thought," APA Annual Meeting, January 2006.
• "Socrates and Civil Disobedience," University of Otago (NZ), February 2004.
• "The Erotics of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece," Evergreen State College, January 2003.
• "Philosophic Initiation in Plato's Symposium," CAAS meeting, April 2001.
• "Sight versus Hearing in Plato's Phaedrus," CAMWS-SS meeting, October 2000.
• "Aristotle on the Female Body and the Audience of Tragedy," Towards a Semiotics of the Body conference, Northwestern University, May 2000.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• P.E. More Fellowship in Ancient Philosophy, Princeton University
• Fellowship to attend summer session of American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton University
• Graduate fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
• Six scholarships, Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Sigma Phi, Florida State University

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member of Stinnecke Committee, Department of Classics, Princeton University (beginning 2005).
• Research Consultant for McGillivray-Freeman Films' IMAX film on Greece, summer 2002.
• Guest speaker (at invitation of the Kalos Kagathos Foundation) for the Southern California High School Water Polo Awards banquet, January 2002.
• Refereed paper for Transactions of the American Philological Association, 2000.
• Designed web site for the Classics Program at Florida Atlantic University, the Classics Web Project at Princeton University, and several course web pages for Rutgers University and Princeton University.
• Tutored faculty at Princeton University in designing course web pages.
• Participated in seminars for computing in the humanites at Princeton University.
• Computer consultant for the Department of Classics at Princeton University for three years.

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