Curriculum Vitae
Elise P. Garrison
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
E-mail: e-garrison@tamu.edu
Ph.D., A.M. Stanford University, Classics, 1987, 1983.
B.A. Summa cum laude San Francisco State University, Classics, 1980 (Phi Beta Kappa)
1995--Associate Professor, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, TAMU
1989-1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, TAMU
1988-89: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1987-88: Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of Greek and Latin, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Milesian Mistress. Forthcoming, PublishAmerica.
"Suicide in Classical Mythology. Part II. Males," at www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/garrison.shtml September 2004
"Tanaquil," in Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World, Revised Edition, Salem Press, Inc. 2003
"Children in Ancient Society," in The History of Childhood, Macmillan Reference USA 2003
"Suicidal Males in Greek and Roman Mythology: A Catalogue," at http://www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/garrison_catalogue2.shtml January 2001
(Diotima is a premier site devoted to the study of women in antiquity, and is now a part of Stoa, an online, refereed Classics journal).
"Suicide in Classical Mythology. Part I. Females, at www.stoa.org/diotima/essays/garrison.shtml November 2000
"Suicidal Females in Greek and Roman Mythology: A Catalogue," at www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/suicides_ie5.htm April 2000. Selected and reviewed by The Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu) May 12, 2000 Volume 6, Number 51. Also selected by OpenHere (http://www.openhere.com/life/cultures-and-groups/women/history/ancient) August 2000.
Groaning Tears. Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy. May 1995Mnemosyne series 147, E.J. Brill Publishers
Editor, How is it Played? Genre, Performance and Meaning, Didaskalia 1995
"Attitudes Toward Suicide in Ancient
"Silent Accusation:The Motif of Silence in Sophocles' Trachiniae," Text and Presentation, Vol. 11, ed. Karelisa Hartigan (1991) 31-7.
"Eurydice's Final Exit in Sophocles' Antigone," Classical World 82 (1989) 431-5.
"Suicide Notes in Euripides' Hippolytus," Text and Presentation, Vol. 9, ed. Karelisa Hartigan (1989) 73-85.
Murder Among Friends. Violations of Philia in Greek Tragedy, by Elizabeth S. Belfiore. Helios 30.2 (2003) 181-3.
Greek and Roman Necromancy, by Daniel Ogden. Religious Studies Review 29.3 (July 2003) 292.
Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity, by Jan Willem van Henten and Friedrich Avemarie. Religious Studies Review29.4 (October 2003) 370-1.
History of Suicide. Voluntary Death in Western Culture, by Georges Minois. Religious Studies Review 28.3 (July 2002) 259.
Atlantis Destroyed, by Rodney Castleden. Religious Studies Review 27.2 (April 2001) 161.
Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art, by Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell. Religious Studies Review 26.3 (July 2000) 269.
The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children, by Lillian Corti. Religious Studies Review 26.3 (July 2000) 266.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P. Easterling. Religious Studies Review 24.4 (Oct. 1998) 412.
Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon, by Jenifer Neals .Religious Studies Review 23.4 (Oct. 1997) 402.
The Roman Family, by S. Dixon, and Ancient Youth. The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society, by M. Kleijwegt in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 32.3 (1996) 281-5.
The Masks of Menander. Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance, by D. Wiles inTheatre Journal 44 (1992) 557-8.
"Childhood in the Greco-Roman World," Childhood: A World History Conference, UC Berkeley October 2003
"Formidable Foes: Warrior Women in Classical Mythology," TAMU, Mexico City, May 1999
"Refreshing the Classics," Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, May 1999
"Women on Trial in the 5th and 4th c. B.C.," CAMWS, April 1998
"Religious and Secular Impiety," Ancient History Colloquium, New Brunswick, March 1998
"The Nature of Athletics in Ancient Greek Life," South-Central Regional Student Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium, April 1997
"Asebeia (Impiety) and its Development in Greek Literature," CAMWS, April 1997
"Greek Goddesses and their Homes," Bryan Women's Club, January 1997
"Mythological Heroes. A Lecture of Epic Proportions," TAMU Literary Arts Guild, November1995
"Teaching Mythology. A Herculean Task," TCA, November 1995
"Suicide Threats and Attempts in Greek Tragedy," CAMWS, April 1993. (By Title)
"Priests and Priestesses in Herodotus," CAMWS, April 1992
"Scepticism in the Oedipus Tyrannus," CAMWS, Southern Section, November 1990
"Silent Accusation: The Motif of Silence in the Trachiniae," Comparative Drama Conference,Gainesville, FL, March 1990
"Teucer and Suicide in the Helen," CAMWS, April 1990
"Silent Exit to Suicide," Invited lecture, University of Texas, Austin, November 1989
"The Foiled Suicide in Euripides' Heracles," American Philological Association, 1989
"Suicide Notes in Euripides' Hippolytus," Comparative Drama Conference XII, Gainesville, FL, March 1988
"A Durkheimian Analysis of the Suicide of Ajax," American Philological Association, 1986
"Suicidal Brides of Hades," Stanford University, June 1986
"The Sociology of Suicide: Durkheim and Greek Tragedy," Stanford University, March 1986
"Ego in Horace's Ars Poetica," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1983
All levels of ancient Greek and Latin; Greek and Roman culture, including mythology, gender, religion, drama, literature, athletics, epic and history.
Participant, TAMU Faculty Abroad Seminar,
Professor, Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts,
Professor, Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts, in Castiglion Fiorentino,
Assistant Supervisor, University of Michigan excavations at Carthage,
Regular member, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, 1984-5
Language Institute Committee, 2002 – 2003
Faculty Senate, 2001- 2003
Academic Affairs Committee, 2001- 2003
Committee of the Status of Women, 2002 - 2003
International Programs Committee, 2001-2002
University Disciplinary Appeals Panel, 2001-present
Classical Studies representative, Executive Advisory Committee, MOCL 1999-2003
HURL representative, Executive Advisory Committee, MOCL 1998-99
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Program in Classical Studies, 1997-present
Placement Committee, American Philological Association, 1997-99
Academic Standards Committee, Texas A&M University, 1996-8
Program Review Committee, Religious Studies, 1997-2003
Program Review Committee, Women’s Studies, 1996-98
Liberal Arts Representative to the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Vice President for Student Affairs, 1995-6
Steering Committee At-Large Member, Liberal Arts Council, 1995-6
Conference Coordinator, "How is it Played? Genre, Performance and Meaning," October 1994.
Dean's Committee for Faculty Development Leaves, 1993
Liberal Arts Council, Texas A&M University, 1993-96
Chair, Subcommittee for Elections, Liberal Arts Council, 1993-94
Committee for Undergraduate Curriculum and Teaching, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, 1994-6
Steering Committee for Awards, CAMWS 1992-94
Community Appearance Committee, College Station, 1992-93
Referee for Helios, 1989-90; Illinois Classical Studies 1999, Transactions of the American Philological Association 1999-2000; Agora, an onlineundergraduate journal for humanities research TAMU 2000, 2001
Faculty Advisor, Classical Antiquity Society, Texas A&M, 1989-1992, 1998, 1999-present
Departmental Lecture Committee Member, 1989-91
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Midwest and Southern States
American Classical League
Texas Classical Association
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Last revised: May 17, 2005