Research Interests

Professor Keane's research and teaching interests range broadly over Greek and Roman literature and culture, but center on the comic genres and their reception. Her research focuses on the Roman verse satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. She has published numerous articles and two books Figuring Genre in Roman Satire (Oxford, 2006) and A Roman Verse Satire Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2010). She is at work on a book called The Poetics of Anger in Juvenal's Satires.

Keane received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the department in 2001, she taught at Reed College and Northwestern University. She has held research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Publications

Books

A Roman Verse Satire Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2010)

Figuring Genre in Roman Satire (Oxford, 2006)

Articles and Chapters

Courses

The Roman World

Text and Tradition: Classical to Renaissance Literature

Greek and Roman Drama

The Tragic Muse

Old Jokes: Laughter in the Greco-Roman World

The Ancient Novel

New Testament Greek

Introduction to Greek Literature: Fall [Plato] and Spring [Homer]

Euripides

Introduction to Latin Literature: Elementary Prose and Poetry

Survey of Latin Literature: Fall [Republic] and Spring [Empire]

Horace on Poetry

Plautus

Ovid

Roman Satire

Scandal and the City: Juvenal and Martial

The Roman Novel

Imperial Eloquence: The Theory and Practice of Rhetoric in Rome's "Silver Age"