Hérica N. Valladares - Classics

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Hérica N. Valladares
[email protected]
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
2005-present
Special Interests:
• Roman art and archaeology, especially wall painting and imperial domestic architecture
• Roman literature, especially Latin elegiac poetry
• Ovid in the Renaissance
• Eighteenth-century reception of antiquity
• Gender theory
Education:
• Columbia University, Ph.D. Classical Studies
• Oberlin College, B.A. Greek Literature with honors
• Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy
Feb. 2006
June 1995
Spring 1994
Dissertation:
Imago Amoris: The Poetics of Desire in Roman Painting
Committee: Richard Brilliant and Natalie Kampen (advisers), Bettina Bergmann, Helene Foley,
Gareth Williams
Academic Honors and Fellowships:
• Women’s Classical Caucus Award for Best
Oral Presentation by a Post-Doctoral Scholar
• NEH/Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize,
American Academy in Rome
• Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, CASVA/National Gallery of Art
• Dissertation Fellowship, Dept. of Art History and Archaeologoy,
Columbia University
• Teaching Fellowship, Core Corriculum – Art Humanities,
Columbia University
• President’s Fellowship, Dept. of Classics, Columbia University
• Phi Beta Kappa
Jan. 2009
2008-2009
2003-2005
2002-2003
2001-2002
1996-2000
May 1995
Publications:
• “The Lover as a Model Viewer: Gendered Dynamics in Propertius 1.3,” Gendered Dynamics in Latin
Love Poetry, eds. E. Greene and R. Ancona (Johns Hopkins U. P., 2005)
• “Four Women from Stabiae: Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Practice and the History of Ancient
Roman Painting,” Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum, eds. V. Coates and J. Seydl
(Getty Publications, 2007)
• “Fallax Imago: Narcissus and the Seduction of Mimesis in Roman Painting” (in progress)
• “Women’s Pleasure in Roman Art: the Case of a Flavian Mirror” (in progress)
• On Tenderness: The Semantics of Love in Roman Painting and Poetry (book manuscript, in progress)
• “Art, Elegy and the Viewer,” The Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy (to be published 2011-12)
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Conference Papers:
• “On Tenderness: The Semantics of Love in Roman Painting and Poetry,” American Academy in
Rome, Rome, Italy, April 7, 2009.
• “Villa Pleasures in Pompeian Townhouses,” Public Symposium, “Roman Art and Culture on the Bay
of Naples,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 20-21, 2009.
• “Women’s Pleasure: The State of the Question,” Feminism and Classics Conference V, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 9, 2008.
• “The Roman Invention of Love: Wall Paintings from the Villa della Farnesina,” Archaeological
Institute of America, Baltimore, MD, September 14, 2007.
• “Women’s Pleasure in Roman Art,” Ancient Studies Colloquium, “Women’s Pleasure in Ancient
Literature and Art,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 14, 2007
• “Narcissus and the Erotics of Mimesis,” Colloquium, “Current Work in Roman Studies,” Johns
Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore, MD, Feb. 23, 2007
• “Poesia e pintura na Roma de Augusto,” Núcleo de História, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janerio, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, August 23, 2006
• “A arte de amar na Roma de Augusto,” Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada,
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 3, 2006
• “The Paintings from Villa Arianna: a History and Interpretations,” In Stabiano Symposium, San
Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, May 6, 2006
• “Fallax Imago: Narcissus and the Seduction of Mimesis,” CASVA/National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2005
• “Reflections on the Subject of Narcissus,” APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
Jan.2-5, 2004
• “Mitos sobre o amor na Casa dos Vettii,” IX Simpósio de História Antiga, UFRGS, Porto Alegre,
Brazil, September 2-6, 2002
• “Breaking Gender Boundaries: Elegiac Pleasure and the Ambiguous Power of the Gaze in Propertius
1.3,” APA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. 3-6, 2001
• “A Florilegium of Ovidian Delights: Correggio’s Io and Danae,” AHAR Graduate Student Symposium,
Columbia University, New York, NY, December 7, 2000
• “Mourning Woman: a Melancholy Viewing of an Attic Tombstone,” at “Passions and Perspectives:
Representing Emotions in Antiquity” conference, Columbia University, New York, Nov. 13, 1999
• “Mulher-Lamento: a dor de existir na arte grega,” at “As formas clínicas da dor de existir: tristeza,
depressão, melancolia” conference, Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
June 29, 1997
University Service:
Johns Hopkins University:
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics
• Participating Faculty, Program in Museums and Society
• Affiliated Faculty, The Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
Teaching Experience:
Johns Hopkins University:
• Graduate seminar: Propertius
• Undergraduate lecture: The World of Pompeii
• Graduate seminar: Roman Painting: A Survey
Fall 2009
Fall 2009
Spring 2008
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Undergraduate seminar: Pompeii: Life and Art in a Roman City
Graduate seminar: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Undergraduate lecture: Great Books: The Western Tradition
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Graduate seminar: The Art of Description: Ekphrasis in Greece & Rome
Advanced Latin: Petronius’ Satyricon
Graduate seminar: Sexuality in Egyptian and Roman Art
Graduate seminar: Virgil’s Aeneid
Undergraduate lecture: The Uses of Myth in Greece and Rome
Graduate seminar: Roman Landscapes: Text and Image
Advanced Latin: Ovid’s Heroides
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2007 &
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Fall 2005