Donka D. Markus ________________CURRICULUM
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| Lecturer II Dept. of Classical Studies University of Michigan 2143 Angell Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
tel. 734 615 3534 (office) 734 995 9677(home) fax: 734 763 4959 e-mail: markusdd@umich. edu back to web-page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~markusdd/index.html |
| Education | Professional Development | Academic service/ advising | Computer projects |
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U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Ph.D. in Roman Literature |
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Wayne State U., Detroit, MI | M.A. in Classics |
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University of Sofia, Bulgaria | M.A. in Greek Literature |
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University of Sofia, Bulgaria | B.A. in Classics |
The University of Michigan (Lecturer II)
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LATIN 231 Introduction to Latin Prose (F '02, '03, '04; W '04, '05) LATIN 231 Honors: Introduction to Latin Prose and Poetry (F '03, F '04) LATIN 301 Caesar, Cicero and Catullus (F '02, '03, '04; W '03, '04, '05) LATIN 426 Practicum (W'03) LATIN 499 Supervised Reading (W'03) LATIN 504 Intensive Elementary Latin (Sp '02, '03, '04) LATIN 993 Seminar for Instructors (W'03) |
The University of Michigan (Visiting Assistant Professor)
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LATIN 231 Introduction to Latin Prose LATIN 232 Vergil LATIN 301 Catullus and Cicero LATIN 301 Ovid and Livy LATIN 504 Intensive Elementary Latin LATIN 194 Second Semester Intensive Latin |
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Elementary Latin I-III Statius and Flavian Culture (graduate Seminar) Roman Satire |
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LAT 410 Republican
and Imperial Poetry GRK 403 Greek tragedy (in the original) LAT 409 Augustan Poetry LAT 231 Pliny, Letters (third semester Latin) Member of prelim-committee in Program for Comparative Literature: Women in Augustan and Chinese poetry |
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Ancient Pompeii Great Books of the Ancient World Roman Sport and Daily Life Elementary Latin 102 Classical Civilization |
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Greek and Roman Civilization Greek and Roman Civilization Roman lyric poetry (third semester Latin) Ancient Greek 102 Ancient Greek 101 |
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Elementary Latin |
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Undergraduate course on Plato |
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Ancient Greek (Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced) |
Administrative: curricular development and supervisory duties (1999- present)
New course development: Developed an intensive honors version of LAT 231 which trains students in the skills of both LAT 231 and LAT 232 and allows students intending to minor or major in Classics to proceed to 300-400 level courses after successful completion of this intensive course. Students need one additional Latin course to complete their language requirement.
2000-1 Mentor in the University of Michigan Mentorship
Program
1998-9 Advisor for SPAN (Student partners across nations)
at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1998-2001 Member of Dissertation committee at the Department
of Comparative Literature on the Politics and Poetics of WO/MAN/UFACTURE:
"Male representations of woman in Chinese Han Fu and Roman
Love Elegy," by Pei-jing Carrie Li.
1997-8 Undergraduate Latin Program Curriculum Committee
1995-6 Undergraduate Classical Civilization Curriculum
Committee
June 29-July 2, 2004, participant in the Glenn M. Knudsvig Memorial Symposium on ?Unlocking Potential: Latin and the Diverse Learner."
May 2-4, 2003 completed the Rassias Method Teacher Workshop at Dartmouth College under the auspices of the Rassias Foundation.
March 22, 2003 , participant in ?Teaching Students of Varied Preparation and Background: Chalenges and Approaches in the Language Classroom" Spring Slavic Pedagogy Workshop by Jeffrey Holdeman.
Sept 27-28, 2002, participant in the Glenn M. Knudsvig Memorial Symposium on ?Promoting Successful Learning and Thinking."
August 2001 , August 2000 , Ann Arbor, MI. Participant and contributor to the Michigan Latin Pedagogy Workshop.
July 5-8, 2000 , Chicago, IL. Participant in National-Louis University Latin Pedagogy Workshop.
May 2000 , Ann Arbor, Michigan. Participant in Enriching Scholarship : a special week-long program of activities for University of Michigan Faculty.
August 1999, Ann Arbor, MI. Participant and contributor to the Michigan Latin Pedagogy Workshop.
June 1999 , Oxford, Ohio. Participant in a week-long seminar on the uses of VRoma and the web in the Latin classroom, organized by S.Bonefas and B. McManus. My special project was the design of an image-text database of readings with commentary for intermediate Latin students.
PUBLICATIONS
• ?Reading Proficiency in Latin through Expectations and Visualization , " in collaboration with D.P. Ross. Classical World 98.1 (2004).
• ?The Gap in the Latin Curriculum , " Classical Outlook 81.3 (Spring 2004).
• ? Grim Pleasures: Statius' Poetic Consolationes," Arethusa 37.1 (2004) 1-5-137.
• ?The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius," in: T. Boyle and W. Dominik, eds. Flavian Rome: Image, Text, Performance 431-467, E.J. Brill: 2002.
• Performing the Book: the Recital of Epic in First-Century C.E. Rome, Classical Antiquity 19.1 (2000) 138-179.
• Old Wine in new Skins: Visual Aids for Teaching Sentence-structure in Latin , Classical Outlook , v. 76, Spring 1999.
• Chronicle of the Bulgarian Franciscan Order (XIV -XVIII century) (Archivium Tripartitum III) composed by Blasius Kleiner in 1775 in Alvinz, Transilvania , translation from the original Latin into Bulgarian by Donka D. Markovska (now Markus), Sofia 1999 (= The Archives Speak 6).
• Seneca's Medea in Egypt, ZPE 117 (1997) 73-80, co-authored with G. Schwendner.
• Transfiguring Heroism: Nisus and Euryalus in Statius' Thebaid , Vergilius 43 (1997) 56-62.
• The Proem and Epic Performance in Statius' Thebaid , electronic publication at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/silver/frame.cgi?thebaid,priamel
• P.Mich. Inv. 29: Two Astrological Treatises , ZPE 105 (1995), 229-36, co-authored with K. Milnor and A. Ambühl.
• Der Aristotelische Tragödiensatz (Poet. 1449b23-27 ) als Definition , Philologia , 25-26 (1992), Sofia, 17-20.
• Contributed a translation of Plato's dialogues Philebos and The Politician from Ancient Greek into Bulgarian in Platon , Dialozi , v. IV, Sofia: Izdatelstvo Nauka i Izkustvo 1990.
• The medical interpretation of Aristotle's theory of catharsis: a historical perspective , Literaturna Misal , no 8 (1988), 70-77.
BOOK REVIEWS
1. Dupont, Florence The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book (Trans. Janet Lloyd). Baltimore and London: 1999. BRYN MAWR Classical Review 2000.06.07
2. R. A. LaFleur, Latin for the 21st Century: From Concept to Classroom, Glenview, Illinois, 1998. Stentor , Voice of the Michigan Classical Conference 1999.
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
• ?Find the switch, turn on the light: understanding Latin connectors (theory and practical tips for the non-intuitive learner), panel with D. P. Ross at the annual convention of ACL, Oxford, OH, June 24-25, 2004.
• ?Successful Reading Strategies for Middle School and Beyond," co-presenter at ACL 57th Annual Institute Pre-Institute Workshop, Oxford, Ohio, June 24-25, 2004.
• "The discontinuous noun-phrase in Catullus and Ovid as discourse marker and as literary signature," talk given at the CAMWS-convention at Lexington, KY, Apr 4, 2003.
• "Charting the territory: practical tips for keeping track of clause-boundaries in long Latin sentences," panel with D. P. Ross at the annual convention of ACL, Buffalo, NY, June 28, 2003.
• "How to teach that which is not there? Teaching the gap to intermediate Latin students, " paper paper given at the annual meeting of ACL , Madison, WI, June 2002.
• "Doing things with texts: a skills-oriented approach to teaching intermediate Latin with the help of technology," power-point presentation given at the annual meeting of CAMWS, Provo, UT, April 2001.
• "The Role of Visualization in the Latin Class-room," paper given at the annual meeting of ACL, San Antonio, TX, June 2001.
• "Some pedagogical applications of word-order studies and pragmatics," paper given at the annual meeting of ACL, San Antonio, TX, June 2001. The finidings of this paper are included in David A. Califf A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition , London 2002, p. 168.
• "Working on both ends of the fence: the role of the language class in easing the freshmen transition," panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Michigan Foreign Language Association (MFLA), Lansing, MI, October 2000.
• "Patterns of cohesion and discontinuity as a teaching tool for reading Caesar and Cicero in the second year, " paper given at the annual meeting of ACL , Bloomington, IN, June 2000.
• "Punctuation and the learning of Latin," paper given at the annual meeting of CAMWS , Charlottesville, VA, April 1998.
• "The rhetoric of performance in Statius' Thebaid " (March 17-22, invitited lecture1998 at a Statius Seminar in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, K. Coleman, organizer).
• "The Oral Performance of Epic in the 1st. A.D.: the proem to Statius' Thebaid " ( annual meeting of CAMWS , Boulder, CO, Apr. 3-6, 1997).
• "The New Heroic Code: Defiant Deaths in Statius' Thebaid ," (conference organized by the Vergilian Society on Flavian Poets, Artists, Architects and Engineers in the Campi Phlagraei , Cumae, Italy, July 7-19, 1997).
• "Textual Strategies and the Illusion of Enactment in Statius' Thebaid " (conference on Echoes of Performance in the Ancient Text , Brown University, Feb. 7-8, 1997).
• "Performing epic or negotiating gender boundaries?: The epic recital in the 1st. C.E." ( APA convention , December 1997).
• "Statius' vatic presence in the Thebaid" ( APA convention Dec. 28, 1996).
• "Claudius Claudianus' imitatio of Seneca in the light of a new Seneca fragment," paper given at a conference on Imitatio and Aemulatio in Chapel Hill, NC, March 23, 1996.
• "Patterns of address in Statius' Thebaid ," paper given at a conference on Performance and Representations of Performance in the Ancient World , Austin, TX, Nov. 4-6, 1995.
Memebership in Professional Organizations
Credentials repository:
Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
2160 Angell Hall, 435 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48 109.
tel. (734) 764 0360; fax (734) 763 4959.