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Stephen Hinds is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987) and Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge book series Roman Literature and its Contexts (13 volumes, with the final title published in 2016). Among his most recent articles are 'Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae' (2016), 'Pastoral and its Futures: Reading like (a) Mantuan' (2017), 'Pre- and Post-Digital Poetics of "Transliteralism": Some Greco-Roman Epic Incipits' (2020), and 'In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others' (2020); details in the pdf CV linked to this page. A book under contract with Cambridge, with the working title Latin Poetry across Languages: Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition, involves exploration of the cross-linguistic and intercultural relations of Latin literature, both in antiquity and between antiquity and (early) modernity. More longstanding commitments include a Cambridge ‘green and yellow’ commentary on Ovid, Tristia 1. Stephen's page on academia.edu offers access to some work in progress, along with a few less readily accessible items among his recent publications; he has added further pdfs from his backlist during the pandemic period of intermittently restricted access to libraries.
Research
Selected Research
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Foreword." In Denis Feeney, Explorations in Latin Literature (2 vols.), Cambridge U.P. 2021, ix-xix
- Stephen E. Hinds. "In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others." In Syrithe Pugh, ed., Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality, Manchester U.P. 2020, 55-90
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Pre- and Post-Digital Poetics of 'Transliteralism': Some Greco-Roman Epic Incipits." In Neil Coffee, Chris Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić, Damien Nelis, eds., Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry, Trends in Classics suppl. vol. 64 (De Gruyter) 2020, 421-45
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Pastoral and its Futures: Reading like (a) Mantuan." Dictynna 14 (2017) [30pp. on paper] http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae." In L. Fulkerson and T. Stover, eds., Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses, U. Wisconsin P. 2016, 249-78
- Stephen E. Hinds. "The self-conscious cento." Chapter in Decadence: 'Decline and Fall' or 'Other Antiquity.' Heidelberg: Winter: 2014. 171-97.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Displacing Persephone: Epic between Worlds." UCL Housman Lecture (limited-circulation pamphlet). University College London, Dept of Greek and Latin: 2013.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae." Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature, eds. T.D. Papanghelis, S.J. Harrison, S. Frangoulidis. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 169-92.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the Barbarian Turn: Tristia, Regrets, Translations." in J. Ingleheart, ed., Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid. Oxford: OUP: 2011. 59-83.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Seneca’s Ovidian Loci." Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, quarta serie 9. 2011. 5-63.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Between Formalism and Historicism." in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies. Oxford: OUP: 2010. 369-85.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Martial's Ovid/Ovid's Martial." Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007): 113-54.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Dislocations of Ovidian Time." in J.P. Schwindt, ed., La représentation du temps dans la poésie augustéenne / Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung. Heidelberg: Winter: 2005. 203-30.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Landscape with Figures: Aesthetics of Place in the Metamorphoses and its Tradition." in P. Hardie, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. 122-49.
- Stephen E. Hinds. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
- Stephen E. Hinds. The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse. Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
- In progress. Commentary on Tristia 1, Ovid's first book of poetry from exile, under contract with Cambridge U.P. in the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.
- In progress. Latin Poetry across Languages: Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition (working title). Book-length exploration of the cross-linguistic and intercultural relations of Latin literature, both in antiquity and between antiquity and (early) modernity. I delivered an early report on the project on November 8-13 2013 as the J.H.Gray Lectures in the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, England. In 2014-15 my research on the project was funded by a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Now under contract with Cambridge U.P.
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
- Grace Funsten. En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Labé. Diss., 2022.
- Xiaoran Luo. Polyphemus and His World: A Literary History from the Odyssey to the Hellenistic Period. Diss., 2021.
- Emma J. Brobeck. Craftsmen, Identity, and Status in the Literature of Flavian Rome. Diss., 2021.
- Sophie Emilia Seidler. Monstrous Texts and Textual Monsters: Transgressive Hybridity in Ovid's Metamorphoses. MA thesis, 2020.
- Daniel A. Conner. Mille simul leti facies: The Allusive Battlefield of Punica 4. Diss., 2018
- Alberto Requejo. Columella's Georgics: Form, Method, Intertextuality, Ideology. Diss., 2017.
- Matthew Gorey. Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder. Diss., 2017.
- Adriana M. Vazquez. Vates and Initiates: Augustan Poetic Manipulation of Greek Mystery Cult. Diss., 2017.
- Joshua J. Hartman. Allusion and Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity: Ausonius, Prudentius, and Claudian. Diss., 2016.
- Bridget Langley. Written on Running Water: Ovidian Poetics in the Roman Waterscape. Diss., 2016.
- Colin Shelton. Semantics and the Structure of Latin Etymological Wordplay. Diss., 2011.
- Erika J. Nesholm. Rhetoric and Epistolary Exchange in Ovid's Heroides 16-21. Diss., 2005.
- Ethan T. Adams. Gods and Humans in Ovid's Metamorphoses : Constructions of Identity and the Politics of Status. Diss., 2003.
- Christopher M. Chinn. Statius and the Discourse of Ekphrasis. Diss., 2002.
- Daniel Curley. Metatheater: Heroines and Ephebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Diss., 1999.
- Braden Mechley. Reading (with) the Animals: Lucretius' Creatures and his Poetic Program. Diss., 1998 (co-chair).
Research Advised: Undergraduate Senior Essays
- Michael McAdams. "Catullus and Fragile Masculinity: An Analysis of Gender Concepts from the Roman Republic and their Impact on Modern Homophobia and Rape Culture." Senior Essay, 2020.
- Elizabeth Abel. "From Antiquity to Modernity: Psychological Constructs of Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Senior Essay, 2020.
- Piers Foley. "The Depiction of Battle between Homer and Virgil." Senior Essay, 2019.
- Rose Bugel-Shunra. "Lamentation in Catullus 64 and Implications Thereof." Senior Essay, 2018.
- Robert Szender. "Catullus and Vergil: An Inquiry into Influence and Allusion." Senior Essay, 2018.
- Christopher Mowers, "Medea: A Director's Portfolio." Senior Essay, 2017.
- Gessica Adornato. "Intertextuality between the Myth of Er, the Somnium Scipionis, and Book 6 of the Aeneid." Senior Essay, 2017.
- Tim Gleghorn. Locus Amoenus: Scenes of a Pastoral Romance. Senior Essay, 2017.
Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses
- David Bloomsburg. "The Scale of the Epic Cast in Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings, and Vergil's Aeneid." Honors Thesis, 2018.
- Honors thesis students 2002-2010. Catherine Basl, Marie La Fond, Jacqui Pincus (all 2009-10), Nicholas Rupert (2008-09), Josh Fincher (2007-08), Jody Valentine (2002-03).
Courses Taught
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2020
Spring 2019
Autumn 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Winter 2017
Autumn 2016
Winter 2016
Autumn 2015
Spring 2014
Winter 2014
Spring 2012
Winter 2012
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Related News
- Grace Funsten (PhD '22) featured in UW Magazine - September 26, 2022
- UW at the SCS (2019)! - December 21, 2018
- Professor Stephen Hinds named UW faculty Katz Distinguished Lecturer for 2013-2014 - March 13, 2013
- Stephen Hinds awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers - December 18, 2012
Related Events
- In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, and Others. Sponsored by CMEMS, Graduate Research Cluster in Classics, Medieval and Early Modern Studies of the Simpson Humanities Center - October 18, 2016 - 4:30pm
- Til death do us part: The enduring appeal of the Orpheus & Eurydice Legend - May 17, 2016 - 7:00pm
- Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek: literature and literalism in the classical tradition - February 25, 2014 - 7:00pm