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NameFrancesca D’Alessandro Behr
PositionProfessor of Classics and Italian Studies
AffiliationUniversity of Houston
Latitude29.7199
Longitude-95.3422
Research Interests

Epic, Gender Studies, Reception, Satire, Narratology, Comparative Literature

Websiteshttp://www.uh.edu/class/mcl/faculty/behr_f/
Publications

Article: “Lucan’s Cato, Joseph Addison’s Cato and the Poetics of Passion” in Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso, Brill 2011.
Article: “Archetypal Encounters: Circe and Odysseus in the Imagination of a Renaissance woman artist,” in ed. H. Frendo, The European Mind: Narrative and Identity (Vol. I & II), Malta: Malta University Press, 2010.
Article “Open Bodies and Closed Minds? Persius’ Saturae in the Light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov,” Oxford readings in Persius and Juvenal in the series Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, edited by Maria Plaza (Göteborg University 2009)
Article: “Consolation, Lamentation, Philosophy and Gender in Lucan’s Bellum Civile 8” in The Philosophising Muse: the Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry, ed. Myrto Garani (general editors of the series Stratis Kyriakidis and Philip Hardie), Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [forthcoming]
Book: Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism and the Aesthetics of Passion, Ohio State University Press, 2007.*

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