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Heather Vincent<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Associate Professor of Classics<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

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Education<\/h4>\n
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  • Ph.D., Brown University<\/li>\n
  • M.A., University of Maryland<\/li>\n
  • B.S., Vanderbilt University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Research Interests<\/h4>\n

    My research concerns humor and invective in Latin literature. I am interested in how writers such as Plautus, Terence, and Juvenal deployed humor for rhetorical and political purposes. By using linguistic and literary critical approaches to Latin texts, I aim to demonstrate how humor, irony, and parody disrupt our assumptions about the narrative, subject matter, and socio-political context of the work. Much of my research focuses on the explicit sexual, scatological, misogynistic, and xenophobic content of humor in ancient texts. I ask whether laughter at offensive content constitutes a kind of complicity on the part of the reader, and if so, how does that complicity change the reader’s relationship to the text? Most importantly, why does it matter?<\/p>\n

    Courses Offered<\/h4>\n

    My research interests in sexuality and gender are reflected in many of my course offerings. I offer courses in Latin, Greek, Classics, Ancient Studies, and in the interdisciplinary Honors Program.\u00a0Recent courses listed below.<\/p>\n

    Language Courses:<\/p>\n

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    • Homer (Greek 210)<\/li>\n
    • Greek Tragedy and the Koine New Testament (Greek 310)<\/li>\n
    • Herodotus (Greek 310)<\/li>\n
    • Aristophanes,\u00a0Ecclesiazusae\u00a0<\/em>(Greek 210\/290)<\/li>\n
    • Terence (Latin 310)<\/li>\n
    • Seneca & Petronius (Latin 202 and 310)<\/li>\n
    • Ovid,\u00a0Metamorphoses\u00a0<\/em>(Latin 201\/310)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Classics and Ancient Studies Courses:<\/p>\n

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      • Classical Mythology (CL 200H)<\/li>\n
      • Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Film & Literature (CL 261H)<\/li>\n
      • Ancient Comedy in Contemporary Film and Literature (CL 262H)<\/li>\n
      • Ancient Greek History (CL 242H)<\/li>\n
      • Women & Gender in the Ancient World (CL 203H)<\/li>\n
      • Identity, Race, Ethnicity in the Ancient World (AS 301G) [Previously titled: Ancient ‘Barbarians’: Self & Other]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Interdisciplinary and Team-Taught Courses:<\/p>\n

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        • Sex & Gender in the Ancient World (WG 360H), team taught with Prof. Amy Langenberg (Religious Studies)<\/li>\n
        • Perspectives on Sex & Gender (HP 220), team taught with Prof. Lisa Bonner (Chemistry)<\/li>\n
        • Human & Post-Human Environments (HP 230E), team taught with Prof. Kelly Debure (Computer Science)<\/li>\n
        • Ancient Barbarians: Self & Other (AS 301G), a Mellon undergraduate research seminar, team taught with Prof. Andrew Chittick (East Asian Studies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          On-Campus Winter Term and Autumn Term Courses:<\/p>\n

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          • Imagining War, Then & Now (WT)<\/li>\n
          • Unsp*k@able Acts: Myth and Meaning in Greek Tragedy (AT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Courses Abroad:<\/p>\n

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            • Spoils of Empire: Stolen Treasures & Other Mysteries of the British Museum<\/li>\n
            • Immortal Greece: History & Art<\/li>\n
            • Discovering Italy: Iron Age to Roman Empire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Select Publications<\/h4>\n
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              • Vincent, H. 2018. \u00a0<\/em>Review:\u00a0Massih Zekavat,\u00a0Satire, Humor, and the Construction of Identities. European Journal of Humor Research,\u00a0<\/em>forthcoming.<\/li>\n
              • Vincent, H. 2014. \u201cSexual Transgression \u2013 Roman World\u201d in\u00a0The Oxford Encyclopedia of\u00a0<\/em> Bible & Gender Studies (OEBGS)<\/em>, Ed. Julia O\u2019Brien, et al. Oxford.<\/li>\n
              • Vincent, H. 2013. \u201cLanguage and Humor: Fabula Stataria and Laughter in Terence\u201d in\u00a0A\u00a0<\/em> Companion to Terence<\/em>\u00a0(Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)<\/em>, Eds. John\u00a0Thorburn and Antonios Augoustakis. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.<\/li>\n
              • Vincent, H. 2011. \u201cNarrative Strategy and Humor in Juvenal 15\u201d\u00a0New England Classical\u00a0<\/em> Journal (NECJ)\u00a0<\/em>38.4: 239-266.<\/li>\n
              • Vincent, H. 2010. \u201cRoman Satire and the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH)\u201d in\u00a0 Dimensions of Humor: Explorations in Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies,\u00a0<\/em>and Translation.<\/em>\u00a0Ed. Carmen Valero-Garces. University of Valencia (Spain). pp.\u00a0417-450.<\/li>\n
              • Vincent, H. 2010. \u201cIs this a Joke? Understanding Humor in Roman Satire\u201d\u00a0International\u00a0<\/em> Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT)<\/em>\u00a017.2: 264-275. Review article on Plaza,\u00a0M.\u00a0The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying,<\/em>\u00a02nd ed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”right” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Banner photo:\u00a0Artifacts from Palace of Knossos by Emily Ashe ’20<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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