John Dugan

PhD

John Dugan.

John Dugan

PhD

John Dugan

PhD

On leave spring 2025
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Research Interests

Latin literature of the late Republic and Augustan period; ancient rhetoric and oratory; ancient and modern literary criticism and aesthetics

Education

  • PhD, Department of Classics, Yale University, 1996
  • MPhil, Department of Classics, Yale University, 1990
  • MA, Department of Classics, Yale University, 1988

Selected Publications

Cover of "Making a New Man".
  • Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • “Non sine causa sed sine fine:  Cicero’s compulsion to repeat his consulate.”  Classical Journal 110.1 (2014) 9-22 (a special issue on Cicero edited by Daniel Hanchey and Alden Smith).
  • “Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity: Interpreting the Pro Marcello.” In  Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome, edited by C. Steel and H. van der Blom (Oxford University Press, 2013), 211-225.
  • Scriptum and Voluntas in Cicero’s Brutus.” In Letteratura e Civitas: Transizioni dalla Repubblica all’Impero. In ricordo di Emanuele Narducci, edited by M. Citroni (Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2012), 119-128.
  • “Rhetoric and the Roman Republic.” In The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric edited by Erik Gunderson (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
  • “Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric.” in A Companion to Roman Rhetoric, W. Dominik and J. Hall eds. (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
  • “Preventing Ciceronianism: C. Licinius Calvus’ regimens for sexual and oratorical self-mastery.” Classical Philology 96 (2001) 400-428.

Undergraduate Courses

Latin 201; Latin 301 (Ovid); Roman Civilization; Classical Epic

Graduate Courses

History of Latin Literature; Latin Syntax and Stylistics; Roman Rhetoric; Catullus and Roman Alexandrianism; Cicero’s Letters; Roman Biography; Roman Letter Writing; Plautus and Terence; Roman Love Elegy; Petronius’ Satyricon.