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Catherine Keane
Titles 
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Degree 
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office 
January Hall, Room 208
Phone/Email
314-935-5198
ckeane@wustl.edu

Research specialization

Office Contact Information

Website 
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ckeane/
Publications 

Figuring Genre in Roman Satire,Oxford 2006

"Lucilius" in The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com)

"Philosophy into Satire: The Program of Juvenal's Fifth Book," American Journal of  Philology 128.1 (2007): 27-57

"Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire," A Companion to Satire from the Biblical World to the Present, ed. Ruben Quintero, Malden, MA and Oxford 2007, 31-52

"Theatre, Spectacle, and the Satirist in Juvenal," Phoenix 57 (2003): 257-275.

"Satiric Memories: Autobiography and the Construction of Genre," Classical Journal 97.3 (2002) 215-231.

"The Critical Contexts of Satiric Discourse," Classical and Modern Literature 22.2 (2002) 7-31.

"Juvenal's Cave-Woman and the Programmatics of Satire," Classical Bulletin 78.1 (2002) 5-20

Courses 

The Roman World

Text and Tradition: Classical Literature

Greek and Roman Drama

The Tragic Muse

Old Jokes: Laughter in the Greco-Roman World

The Ancient Novel

Survey of Latin Literature: The Empire [Vergil and Livy]

Horace on Poetry

Plautus

Ovid

New Testament Greek

Introduction to Greek Literature [Plato and Homer]

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 the book Figuring Genre in Roman Satire (Oxford, 2006). She is at work on two more books: Looking at the Satirists: Juvenalian Personae and Poetics and A Roman Satire Reader.

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