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Dr. Carol
J. King
Assistant Professor, Classics
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Corner Brook, Newfoundland
B.A., B.Ed. (Saint Mary's), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D.
(Brown)
Office: AS 332 C
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6437
Email:
cking@grenfell.mun.ca
Research Interests: Dr. King is a Hellenist with interests in
Greek history and literature, Greek and Roman historiography, ancient
Macedonia, divination in the ancient world, and the intellectual history
of Alexandria. Her area of specialization is Alexander the Great.
Dr. King is an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, Greece (Regular Member 2001-2002), and a past Research Assistant
at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. She has
taught classics courses at several universities in the U.S. and Canada.
She came to Grenfell Campus in 2007. |
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on sabbatical
2013-14
as Visiting Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens
Sept 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014
Courses Fall 2014
Winter 2015
TBA
TBA
Gros Morne National
Park,
Corner Brook area, Newfoundland UNESCO World Heritage Site
Teaching Experience
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University,
Assistant Professor 2007-present
Trent University,
Assistant Professor, sessional
appointments 2005-2007
Baylor University, Lecturer
2003-2005
Mount Allison University, Crake Doctoral
Fellow 2002-2003
University
of Rhode Island,
Lecturer Summer
2001
Brown University, Teaching Assistant 1997-1999
Dalhousie University, Teaching
Assistant 1993-1995
President's Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Dalhousie
University 1993-1994
Colchester-East Hants School Board, Nova Scotia
1989-1993
Halifax County -Bedford District School Board, Nova Scotia
1987-1989
International Experience
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Northern Greece, Macedonia and Thrace Trip June 2011
acropolis Thasos
Grenfell in Greece 2010
Intersession
CLAS 2010 Greek Art and Architecture
Acropolis, Athens
Delphi
Research Travel in
Greece and Egypt
April-May 2008
north slope, Acropolis, Athens
Alexander, National Archaeological
Demos mural, National and Kapodistrian
Museum, Athens
University of Athens
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
Aphrodite, Bibliotheca Museum Shogafa Catacombs, Alexandria
Delegate, Baylor University’s
Women, Health and Education for Afghanistan
Workshop diverted to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, UAE
May
2005
Dubai Creek, Dubai Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
American University of Sharjah
Delegate, Baylor University’s
Higher Education for Iraq, University of Dohuk
and Baylor University joint Academic Workshop, Dohuk, Iraq
December 2003
College of Arts, University of Dohuk, Iraq
Nusaybin, Turkey
Students and Faculty, Arts, University of Dohuk
Egypt May
2002
James Rignall Wheeler Fellow,
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece
2001-2002
Temple
of Apollo, Delphi "Aristotle's Classroom", Mieza, northern Greece
Hermes of Praxitiles, Olympia
Parthenon, Athens
Mt. Dicte, Crete
Troy, Turkey
Recent
Awards and Grants
Vice-President Grenfell Campus Research Grant
2012-13
Grenfell Campus Principal's Research Grant 2010-11
Internal SSHRC Travel Grant for Paper Presentation at Scholarly Meetings Winter 2010
SWGC Principal's Research Grant 2008-09
MUN Instructional Development Grant (co-recipient) 2007-08
Internal SSHRC Travel Grant for Paper Presentation at Scholarly Meetings Winter 2008
MUN Start-up Funding Grant Winter 2008
Publications
"Plutarch, Alexander, and Dream Divination,"
Illinois Classical Studies
Vol. 38 2013
Review
article: R. Waterfield, Dividing the
Spoils: the War for Alexander
the Great’s Empire (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2011),
J. Romm, Ghost on the Throne: the Death of Alexander the Great and the
War for Crown and Empire (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), and
J. Roisman, Alexander’s Veteran’s and the Early Wars of the Successors
(Austin: University of Texas, 2012) in Classical Journal Vol. 108 No. 2
February/March 2013
Review: D. Roller, Cleopatra: a biography (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010) in Mouseion (CAC)
Series III, Vol. 11 No. 3
2011
"Kingship and Other Political Institutions, " in J. Roisman and I. Worthington,
eds,
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
(Blackwell)
2010
Review: W. Heckel and L. Tritle, eds. Alexander the Great: A New
History
(Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) in
CJ Online Forum 2009.10.02 Fall 2009
Review: K. Cheshire, Alexander the Great. Greece & Rome: Texts and
Contexts
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2009) in
CJ Online Forum 2009.11.02 Fall 2009
Review: P. Cartledge, Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past
(Woodstock
and New York; The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2004) in
The Historian Vol. 67 Issue 4: 789-790 Winter 2005
Conference
Papers Delivered
“So
Much Cretan Bull: Mary Renault’s use of Ecphrasis,”
Annual Meeting
of the
Classical Association of Canada, Halifax, NS May 2011
“Arrian’s
‘Alexander’: a rebuttal of the Vulgate fortunatus rex,”
Annual Meeting
of the Atlantic Classical Association,
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS October 2010
“Alexander,
Alexandrian
cosmopolitanism, and Youssef Chahine’s Alexandria Again and
Forever,"
104th Annual Meeting
of CAMWS, Oklahoma City, OK
March 2010
“The Rise of Alexandria: a modern
sequel,” Annual Meeting of the Atlantic
Classical Association,
University of Prince Edward Island
October 2009
“Macedonian Treason Cases: the
question of authority,” 104th Annual Meeting
of the Classical Association of
the Middle West and South, Tucson, AZ April 2008
“The ‘divine element’ (θείον)
in Arrian’s
Anabasis,” Brown University,
Conference in honor of Charles W.
Fornara October 2006
“Alexander, Dreams and Court Propaganda,” Annual Meeting of the
Classical
Association of Canada, Toronto May 2006
“Battle Panic and Blood-letting: Sacrificing to Phobos at Plutarch
Alexander
31.9,”
101st Annual Meeting of the
Classical Association of the Middle West
and South, Madison, WI April 2005
“Aristander of Telmessus and Divination in the Alexander Historians,
135th Annul Meeting of the
American Philological Association,
San Francisco, CA January 2004
“Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East,” Dohuk,
Iraq,
University of Dohuk/Baylor University
joint Academic Workshop December 2003
“Mieza and Aristotle’s Tutelage of Alexander,” Annual Meeting of the
Atlantic
Classical Association, University
of Prince Edward Island September
2002
Public Lectures
“Dreams and Prophecies,” Grenfell Campus, Humanities Program Launch
and Conference, Corner Brook, NL
March 2011
“The Man Who Would Be God: Alexander’s divinity interpreted in
film,”
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
February 2011
“Executing the High Command; the price of
kingship in ancient Macedonia,”
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Speakers Series March 2008
“Alexander’s Exiles Decree,”
Trent University, Peterborough, ON January 2007
“The Power and Prestige of
Manteis in Greek Warfare,” Vanderbilt
University
Nashville, TN March 2006
“Seers, Sacrifices, and Scanning the Skies: Reading Signs or Reading Minds?,”
Union
College, Schenectady, NY January 2005
“History and Imagination: the Legacy of Alexandria,”
Crake Fellow Lecture,
Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB March
2003
“Dreaming and Scheming: Alexander and the Siege of Tyre,”
Dalhousie
University,
Halifax, NS January 2002