Micaela W. Janan CV

The Father’s Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Silvae 2.1 - American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies) Annual Meeting · January 11, 2015 Lecture New Orleans, LA

'Our Father, Who Art My Lover': Psychoanalysis and Paternity in Statius’ Silvae · October 13, 2013 Lecture Classical Association of the Atlantic States, University of Pennsylvania

“The Anatomy of Melancholy: Loss, Ethics, Marriage and Juno in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” · September 2, 2009 Invited Talk University of London

Invited Lectures ; 5th Bristol Colloquium on Classical Myth: Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis.

Picking up the Pieces in Lyric: Narrative, Knowledge, and Narcissus · April 11, 2008 Invited Talk University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Invited Lectures ;http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/archive/2007-08/Mellon-Workshops/111/Home.html ;Part of Mellon-Foundation sponsored workshop series On Lyric: Politics, Theory & Practice, 2007-2008

The Revenger's Constancy: Construing Juno in Ovid's Thebes · October 6, 2006 Invited Talk University of Toronto,

Anamorphosis in the Metamorphoses: Looking Awry at Ovid's Thebes · March 8, 2005 Invited Talk Oxford University,

The Study of Revenge: Making Sense of Ovid's Unappeasable Juno (Metamorphoses III-IV) - Latin Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies · March 7, 2005 Invited Talk University of London,

Stained Glass: Narcissan Reflections on Thebes in Rome · February 11, 2005 Invited Talk Stanford University,

Faith-base Initiatives: Patriotism, Piety, and Sadism in Ovid's Thebes · March 13, 2003 Invited Talk University of California-Santa Cruz,

Courting the Demon: The Uses of Terror in Ovid's Thebes - John Patrick Sullivan Memorial Lecture · March 11, 2003 Invited Talk University of California-Santa Barbara,

The Subject of Speculation: The Mystery of Identity in Propertius’ Gallus-poems - Constructions of the Self: The Poetics of Subjectivity, 1st Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference · April 9, 1999 Invited Talk University of South Carolina,

The Return of the Dead: Cornelia's Indictment of Rome (Propertius 4.11) · October 31, 1997 Invited Talk University of Michigan,

How Does She Know?: Epistemology and the Feminine in the Ancient World - French Feminism Across the Disciplines, 30th Annual Texas Comparative Literature Symposium · January 30, 1997 Invited Talk Texas Tech University,

Listening to the Dead: Rome on Trial in the Cornelia Elegy (Propertius 4.11) - Ancient Voices and Ancient Personae lecture series · November 11, 1996 Invited Talk University of London,

Grave Secrets: A Dead Woman's Indictment of Rome (Propertius 4.11) · May 9, 1996 Invited Talk Bristol University,

The Mechanics of Fluids: Tarpeia in Propertius 4.4 · May 8, 1996 Invited Talk Cambridge University,

The Muse Unruly and Dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4.5 - Cultivating the Muse: Power, Desire and Inspiration in (and beyond) the Classical World · May 4, 1996 Invited Talk Oxford University,

'Knowing': Lacan and the Epistemology of the Feminine in Catullus - Feminist Theory and the Classics lecture series · 1993 Invited Talk Brown University,

Double Trouble, or, How Lacan Invented the Anxiety of Influence for Ovid: A Reading of the Caunus/Byblis Tale in Ovid's Metamorphoses · 1991 Invited Talk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

`Stop Making Sense': Drawing the Line(s) in Catullus 68, Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1988 Lecture Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utah State University

Service to the Profession

Panel Organizer (with Jacques Bromberg - “Family Values: Fathers and Sons in Flavian Literature” · 2015 Event/Organization Administration Society for Classical Studies, New Orleans, LA

Member - Women's Classical Caucus Steering Committee · 2005 - 2008 Event/Organization Administration

Panel Organizer (with Robert Cohon and Paul Allen Miller) - “Images of Desire: Psychoanalysis and Antiquity" · 2004 Event/Organization Administration AIA-APA joint conference, San Francisco, CA

Panel Organizer (with Paul Allen Miller) - “Recognition, Subjectivity and Gender in Roman Poetry” · 2002 Event/Organization Administration CAMWS, Austin, TX

Co-chair - Women's Classical Caucus · 1999 Event/Organization Administration

Panel Organizer (with Paul Allen Miller) - “The Speaking Subject in Rome” · 1999 Event/Organization Administration APA, Dallas, TX

Panel Organizer (with Paul Allen Miller) - “Gender Trouble in Roman Elegy” · 1998 Event/Organization Administration APA, Washington, D.C.

Panel Organizer (with Paul Allen Miller) - “Symptomatic Texts: Roman Literature and the Unconscious” · 1998 Event/Organization Administration CAMWS, Charlottesville, VA,

Member - Women's Classical Caucus Steering Committee · 1996 - 1999 Event/Organization Administration

Conference Organizer - "Ovide analysé: New Directions in Ovid Studies" · 1994 Event/Organization Administration Duke University,

Panel Organizer - "Configurations of Gender in Roman Literature" · 1992 Event/Organization Administration APA, APA Convention

Service to Duke

Director of Graduate Studies · 1997 - 2000 Other Classical Studies Department, Duke University,