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Elizabeth Vandiver is a noted professor of classics. She is currently Associate Professor of classics at Whitman College, having previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] She received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 1998.[1] She won awards for her teaching from Northwestern University and the University of Georgia.[1]
She did undergraduate work at Shimer College in Illinois where she enrolled as an early entrant at the age of 16, after completing tenth grade. She earned a B.A. degree in 1976 and then worked several years as a librarian. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Her dissertation was on Herodotus and was published as Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History. In February 2010, Oxford University Press published her groundbreaking study "Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War." She has taught at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, and Utah State University.[1]
Teaching Company
She has recorded several lectures for The Teaching Company in the field of classical history and literature and include the following:
- Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition (with other professors)[1]
- Classical Mythology[1]
- Odyssey of Homer[1]
- Iliad of Homer[1]
- Greek Tragedy[1]
- Herodotus: The Father of History[1]
- Aeneid of Virgil[1]
Books
- Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History[1]
- Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther (translator)
- Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Elizabeth Vandiver". The Teaching Company. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
Elizabeth Vandiver is Associate Professor of Classics and Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly Director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics. She completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College and went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.
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External links
- Teaching Company Biography
- "Expanding the Bounds of Thought" (transcript of Whitman College baccalaureate address)
- Whitman