John Dugan

Associate Professor
Phone: 645-2154, ext. 110
Email: jdugan@acsu.buffalo.edu

Graduate Degrees:

  • M.A.: Yale University, Department of Classics (1988).
  • M.Phil.: Yale University, Department of Classics (1990).
  • Ph.D.: Yale University, Department of Classics (1996).

Expertise/research interests:

  • Latin literature; prose and poetry of the late Republic; Greek and Roman rhetoric and oratory; ancient and modern literary theory and aesthetics; Cicero.

Selected Publications:

  • Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • "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.
  • "How to Make (and break) a Cicero: Epideixis, Textuality, and Self-fashioning in the Pro Archia and In Pisonem." Classical Antiquity 20 (2001) 35-78.

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.

Curriculum Vitae