Faculty and Staff

Title(s)	Assistant Professor of Classics; Coordinator, Department of Classics.
Status	Faculty
Department(s)	Classics
Phone number	757.233.8811
E-mail address	bhaller@vwc.edu
Office Location	Birdsong 107

FALL 2011 Schedule

	Office Hours	Start Time	End Time	Bldg	Room
	MW 4-5; F 1-4
CLAS*105*01 Classical Mythology	MWF	10:00AM	10:50AM	CLAR	118
CLAS*105*02AA HNRS: Classical Mythology	MWF	10:00AM	10:50AM	CLAR	118
CLAS*330*01 Tpc:J.R.R. Tolkien & Anc Epic	MW	01:00PM	02:15PM	CLAR	219
CLAS*450*01 Senior Seminar in Classics				TBA	TBA
FYE*101*27AA First Year Experience	T	11:00AM	11:50AM	GRAY	1
	TH	12:00PM	12:50PM	GRAY	1
FYE*401*27 Peer Advising	T	11:00AM	11:50AM	GRAY	1
	TH	12:00PM	12:50PM	GRAY	1
GREK* 121 and 122*01 TU:Beginning Ancient Greek I and II	T/H 4:00	Hofheimer Library		TBA	TBA
LATN*111*01 Beginning Latin I	MTWF	12:00PM	12:50PM	CLAR	221
LATN*213*01 Intermediate Latin	MW	02:30PM	03:45PM	CLAR	202
LATN*305*01 Topics in Latin Prose LATN 306 01 Topics in LATN poetry	TH after Greek	02:30PM	03:45PM	CLAR	202

Education

College of William and Mary 1997 (B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa; Classics: Ancient Greek)

University of Pittsburgh 2007 (Ph.D., Classics: Dissertation: Landscape Description in Homer's Odyssey)

Current Research Interests

Homer, The Classical Tradition, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Dreams and Memory in Greek Literature.

Current Projects

A Student Commentary on the Portions of Suetonius and Tacitus Describing the Reign of the Emperor Nero. This commentary arises from notes created for a Roman Historians course at Lawrence University several years ago, and is intended to give students who have completed one year of Latin with Wheelock the vocabulary and grammar help they need to read the major Latin texts concerning Nero's reign.

"Dum conderet... Germanopolim?! Whittier's Pius Pennsylvania Pilgrim Pastorius and Vergilian Rhetoric in the Ktisis Legend of Germantown, Pennsylvania"

Recent Presentations

2010/2011

"Francis Daniel Pastorius' Delicae Hortenses and the Pastoral Ideal", at the October 2011 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. The presentation will examine how Pastorius, the polyglot Pietist founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, uses the Roman poet Vergil to articulate his vision of agrarian life in Penn's new colony, and how John Greenleaf Whittier revisited Pastorius' Vergilian literary identity to refashion this gardening schoolteacher into an unlikely Aeneas of a new nation.

"Myth, Architecture, and Memory:  Chris Nolan's Inception and the myths of Ariadne and Iphigeneia." Classical Representations in Popular Culture panel, at the PCA/ACA and Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Joint Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

"More than a Mere Suasoria:  Lucian's Phalaris." Greek Literature Panel, The Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting in Newark, New Jersey.

Publications

Journals

Haller, Benjamin S. 2012. “Homeric Parody, the Isle of the Blessed, and the Nature of Paideia in Lucian's Verae Historiae.” In Reception: Transactions of the International Conference on the Ancient Novel In Lisbon, Portugal, July 2008. -- forthcoming

Haller, Benjamin S. 2009. "The Gates of Horn and Ivory in Odyssey 19: Penelope's Call for Deeds, Not Words." Classical Philology 104:397-417.

Encyclopedias

Haller, Benjamin S. 2011. "Doulichion." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Echinades." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Geography." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Ionian Islands." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Ithaca." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Landscape." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2011. "Zakynthos." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2009. "Antigone." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press.

------ . 2009. "Narcissus." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press.

------ . 2009. "Pandora." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press.

------ . 2009. "Pygmalion." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press.

Online and Popular Publications

2012  Contributor of Articles and and Collaborator to the Online Companion to:  Raia, Ann, and Cecelia Luschnig, Judith Lynn  Sebasta.  2005.  Worlds of Roman Women:  A Latin Reader.  Newburyport, MA:  Focus:  http://www2.cnr.edu/home/araia/companion.html