Updated 11/3/98

 

LESLEY A. DEAN-JONES



 

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Classics,
WAG 123
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712- 1181
OFFICE (512) 471-5742 /2352
E-MAIL: ldjones@mail.utexas.edu


EDUCATION
Stanford University, September 1979-August 1986
        Ph.D. in Classics, June 1987
        M.A. in Classics, September 1981
University College London, September 1974-June 1977
        B.A. (First Class) in Classics. (Awarded Arthur Platt Scholarship in Classics for best Ciassics graduate
        in University of London 1977)
POSITIONS
Associate Professor at UT Austin, September 1994-present
Assistant Professor at UT Austin, July 1987-August 1994
Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, October-November 1990
Instructor at Barnard College, Columbia University, August 1986-June 1987

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
American Philological Association Committee on Professional Matters, 1997-99
        http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/scripts/APA/APA-MENU.html
Vice-President Society for Ancient Medicine, 1998-2000
        http://web1.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/sam/

AWARDS
Dean's Fellowship, University of Texas, January-May 1999
James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advising, January 1998
Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Texas, January-June 1996
James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advising, January 1996
WCC Award for best article written from a feminist perspective for "Politics of Pleasure", December 1994
Rachael & Ben Vaughan Fellowship, Department of Classics, UT, Septemberl992-June 1993
ACLS Recent Recipient's Fellowship, Septemberl989-June 1990
Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Texas, September l989-June 1990
Rachael & Ben Vaughan Fellowship, Department of Classics, UT, September l989-June 1990
Summer Research Grant, University of Texas, June 1989
Summer Research Award, University of Texas, June-August 1988
Whiting Fellowship, Whiting Foundation, September 1985-September 1986
Mellon Fellowship (awarded by Center for Population Studies, Stanford University), January 1985
Dougherty Fellowship for year's study at American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Stanford University,
        September 1982-May 1983

BOOKS
Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). Reprinted / in paperback 1996.

ARTICLES
"The Role of Ephialtes in the Development of Athenian Democracy," Classical Antiquity 6 (1987), 53-76.
"Menstrual Bleeding According to the Hippocratics and Aristotle," Transactions of the American PhilologicalAssociation 119 (1989), 179-194.
"The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science," Women's History and Ancient History, ed. Sarah B. Pomeroy
        (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 111-137.
"The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus," Helios 19 (1992), 72-91.
"The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus," Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to Aids, ed. Domna Stanton
        (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), 48-77. (A reprint of the previous article with a slightly expanded conclusion.)
"The 'Proof' of Anatomy," Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, edd. Elaine Fantham et al. (New York: Oxford University Press,
        1994) 183-205.
"Autopsia, Historia and What Women Know: The Authority of Women in Hippocratic Gynaecology," Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical
        Traditions: A Comparative Study, ed. Don Bates (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995), 41-58.
"Menexenus--Son of Socrates," Classical Quarterly 45 (1995), 51-57.
"Philosophy and Science," Cambridge mustrated History of Ancient Greece, ed. Paul Cartledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
        1998), 288-319.
"Teaching Medical Terminology as a Classics Course," Classical Joumal 93 (1998), pp.290-6.

REVIEWS
Pandora's Daughters by Eva Cantarella (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986) for Ancient Philosophy 8 (1988), 138-141.
Knidische Medizin Teil II by Hermann Grensemann (Hermes Einzelschriften 51 1987) for American Joumal of Philology 110 (1989), 164-166.
The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditzons, ed. G. R. Dunstan, (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1990) for
        Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993), 206-209.
Companions to ancient thought 2: Psychology, ed. Stephen Everson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) for Joumal of the History
        of Behavioral Sciences 29 (1993), 363-366.
Conception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992) for
        Joumal of the History of Sexuality 5 (1994), 142-144.

PAPERS DELIVERED
"Teaching Medical Terminology as a Classics Course," (CAMWS annual convention, Boulder Colorado, April 1997)
"Why is this Woman Smiling: A Representation of a Uterine Fumigation on an Attic Skyphos," (Colloquium on Aspects in Ancient Medicine,
        University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, February 1997, and previously at Four Informal Lectures on Women in the Greek World,
        University of Texas at Austin, March 1996)
Response to "Magic, Religion and Science: Divine and Human in the Hippocratic Corpus" (Workshop on Reason and Religion in Fifth-century
        Greece, University of Texas at Austin, September 1996)
"Women as Authorities in Greco-Roman Gynecology" (Rice University, October 1993, and previously at Workshop on Ancient Societies,
        Chicago University, May 1993, and at Symposium on Epistemology and the Scholarly Med ical Trad itions, Department of Humanities and
        Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, May 1992) 4Menopause and Menarche: Cultural Perspectives on Women's
        Biological Transitions in Greece and Rome" (Madeleine Smith Lecture, University of Illinois at Carbondale, April 1996, and previously at
        Conference on Historicizing the Body, University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 1991, The Women's Studies Research Seminar of UT
        Austin, February 1991, and the APA annual convention, San Francisco December 1990)
"The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus" (Conference on Foucault/Sexuality/Foucault, Institute for the
        Humanities, University of Michigan, November 1990 and previously at Stanford University, April 1990, Center for the Study of Science in
        Society, Virginia Tech, March 1990 and Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, April 1987
"The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science" (Texas A&M University, April 1990 and previously at Mary J. Pearl
        Lecture in Ancient Classical Studies, Sweet Briar College, March 1990, Symposium on Women and Greek Medicine, Brown University,
        October 1988 and Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 1987
"Evolution of the Species? Biological Elements in Aristotle's Theory of the Development of Tragedy" (Stanford University, January 1991 and
        previously at CAMWS annual convention, New Orleans, April 1988)
"The Letters of Plato: An Epistolary Novel?" (University of Michigan, January 1991)
"Plato's Menexenus: The dog it was that died" (CAMWS annual convention, Columbia Missouri, April 1990)
"Andrology in the Hippocratic Corpus" (APA annual convention, Baltimore January 1989)
"Gender and Medicine in Ancient Greece" (Institute for the Medical Humanities, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, May 1988)
"Hippocrates and Galen in School Curricula" (Texas Classical Association annual meeting, Austin, November 1987)
"Menstrual Bleeding according to the Hippocratics and Aristotle" (APA annual convention, San Antonio, December 1986)
"The Shifting Hypothesis of Plato's Parmenides" (APA annual convention, Toronto, December 1984)

COURSES TAUGHT
Graduate: Introduction to Ancient Medicine; Aristotle's Biology; Hippocratic Literature; Greek Gynecology; Plato; Lucretius;
        Teaching Methods
Undergraduate Language: Elementary Greek and Latin; Lysias; Herodotus; Homer; Sophocles; Greek Lyric; Aristophanes; Plato;
        Vergil; Petronius; Sallust; Cicero; Caesar; Lucretius; Tacitus
Undergraduate in Translation: Classical Literature Homer to Vergil; Classical Drama Aeschylus to Seneca; Women in Greco-Roman
        Antiquity; Introduction to Ancient Medicine; Hippocratic Medicine; Medical and Scientific Terminology (with a History of
        Medicine component); Greek and Latin Roots of English

THESES DIRECTED
M.A.: The Sicilian School of Medicine
Plan II: Littre's translation of ~Hippocrates~ On Sterile Women: Introduction, Translation & Commentary; Influence
        of Ancient Theories of the Mind on Treatment of Mental L)isease
Classics Honors: The Extent of Incision in Hippocratic Surgery

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Undergraduate Adviser, Department of Classics, Univeristy of Texas at Austin, Sept. 1994 present
Faculty Review Committee for Continuing University Fellowships

REFERENCES
Professor Tom Palaima, Chair, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Karl Galinsky, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
Professor G.E.R. Lloyd, Master, Darwin College, Cambridge University
Professor Heinrich von Staden, Department of Classics, Yale University
Professor Ann Ellis Hanson, Department of Classics, University of Michigan 


updated 10/25/99                           email: ldjones@mail.utexas.edu