Mary DeForest, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Education

Ph.D., Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

MA, Classics, University ofChicago, Chicago, Illinois

BA, Classics, Mt, Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

American School for Classical Studies, Athens

Representative Publications

BOOKS and ARTICLES (Classical):

"Female Choruses in Greek Tragedy," in Didaskalia (1998), an on-line classics journal at http://didaskalia.berkeley. edulissues/vol4no IIdeforest. html.

Apollonius' Argonautica: A Callimachean Epic. Brill, Mnemosyne Series, 1994.

(ed.) Woman's Power, Man's Game: Essays in Honor of Joy King. Wauconda, 1993

Gods in Livery," Classical Bulletin, 69 (1989), 71-76.

"The Central Similes of the Cleopatra Ode," Classical World, 82 (1989), 167-73.
"Clytemnestra's Breast and the Evil Eye," in Woman's Power, Man's Game.

ARTICLES (Classical Tradition):

"Jane Austen: Closet Classicist," forthcoming, Persuasions 22 (2000).

(With Eric Johnson) "Computing Latinate Word Usage in Jane Austen's Novels," Computers & Texts, Nos. 18-19, Spring, 2000, 24-25. (On-line version at
http://info.ox. ac.uk!ctitext/publishlcomtxtlct 18-191contents.shtml)

"Eighteenth-Century Women and the Languages of Power," Classical and Modem Literature, 12 (1992),191-207.

"Anna's Daughter: Mazie Holbrook in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio," in The Anna Book, edited by Mickey Pearlman, Greenwood Press, 1992.

"Mary Poppins and the Great Mother," Classical and Modem Literature, II (1991), 139-54.

"The Wind in the Willows: A Tale for Two Readers," Classical and Modern Literature, 10 (1989),81-87; rpt. in Modern British Literature, ed. Laurie Di Mauro (Detroit: St. James Press, 2000), Vol. 1,577.

"Jane Austen and the Anti-Heroic Tradition," Persuasions, 10 (1988), 11-21.

''Mrs. Elton and the Slave Trade," Persuasions, 9 (1987), 11-13.