Brett M. Rogers Franklin Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 241 Park Hall Phone: 706 542-2179 FAX: 706 542-8503 E-Mail: bmrogers@uga.edu

Special Interests

• Greek Tragedy
• Archaic Greek Epic & Lyric
• Ancient Novel
• Classical Mythology & Modern Media

Academic History

• Ph.D. 2005 Stanford University
• B.A. 1999 Reed College
• Summer 2000 American School of Classical Studies in Athens
• Spring 1998 Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome

Dissertation

Before Paideia: Representations of Education in Aeschylean Tragedy

Current Research

Brett Rogers is presently engaged in a series of articles examining both the role of didaskaloi (“teachers”) and the notion of teaching in archaic and classical Greece, with a primary interest in teaching as a mode of (self-)representation and as a form of negotiating social and political status. In progress are two articles: “The Politics of Being Self-taught (autodidaktos) in Homer & Aeschylus” and “The Tragical History of Education in Archaic and Classical Greece," both of which will be completed by the spring of 2007.

Future research projects include (1) an expanded study of representations of education in archaic Greek poetry and classical tragedy down to c. 400 BC and (2) an examination of space as a metaphor for poetic and literary knowledge in classical literature and the particular phenomenon of the katabasis (tentatively entitled Poetic Heights and Critical Depths). Rogers also works intermittently in the fields of gender and media studies and has written on the sexual mythologies of the Julio-Claudian emperors and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Recent Papers

• ‘The Politics of Being “Self-Taught” (autodidaktos) in Homer and Aeschylus’ (University of Auckland)
• ‘“Previously on…”: Memory Loss & Textual Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel’ (Slayage Conference, Gordon College)
• ‘How Not to Teach (and Still Turn a Profit) in Theognis and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes’ (CAPN Meetings, Reed College)
• “Turning a ‘Prophet’ in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes” (University of Iowa)
• “To Quote Or Not To Quote Homer in the Greek Novel” (Stanford)
• “Raising Hell: Literary Criticism in Katabaseis and Nekyiai” (Duke / UNC Chapel Hill)
• “Sometimes the Best Conversations I Have Are with Myself: Monologue, Dialogue, and Poetic Competition in Theocritus Idylls 11 & 6” (Berkeley)
  

Publications

• B.M. Rogers (forthcoming) “Classical Drama,” Western Drama Through the Ages. ed. K. King. Greenwood Press
• B.M. Rogers (2006) “The Whedonverses and the Sociology of Academe,” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies No. 21 (http://www.slayage.tv)
• B. M. Rogers & W. Scheidel (2004) “Driving Stakes, Driving Cars: California Car Culture, Sex, and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies No. 13-14 (http://www.slayage.tv)
• B. M. Rogers & D. Silverman (2000) “Sympathy for the Devil: Socrates and the Athenian Democracy.” Stanford Agora: An Online Journal of Legal Perspectives 1:1.54-59. (http://agora.stanford.edu/agora/issue1/)
  

Courses Taught

• Courses in translation: Classical Mythology, Theories of Mythology, Greek Culture, Greek Tragedy, Survey of Classical Literature, Encountering Homer’s Odyssey (with Richard Martin through AllLearn), Gender & Power in Ancient Rome (with Jennifer Trimble)
• Greek courses: Beginning Greek, Intermediate Greek (Lucian’s True History, Homer’s Iliad, Plato & Homer), Advanced/Graduate Greek (Aeschylus)
• Latin courses: Intensive Beginning Latin, Advanced Latin (Horace, Nero & Neronian Debauchery in Suetonius & Petronius, Apuleius)
  

Other Professional Experience

• 2004-2005 Lecturer, Santa Clara University
• 2004-2005 Teaching Consultant, Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning