Anthony Corbeill
Anthony Philip Corbeill is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He has published three books, Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004), and Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015).[1] He is best known for his research concerning Roman literature and cultural history,[1] as well as publishing articles concerning grammatical gender and gesture (such as the pollice verso, or which it has been argued that Corbeill "provides the most thorough review of").[2][3][4][5]
Corbeill received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Languages from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. In addition, he has held fellowships working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and All Souls College, Oxford.[1]
Bibliography
- Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996) Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691027395.
- Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004) Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691074948.
- Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015) Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691163222.[1][6]
References
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Anthony Corbeill". University of Kansas. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ Corbeill, Anthony (2008). "Genus Quid Est?: Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex" (PDF). 138 (1). Transactions of the American Philological Association. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "American Society for the History of Rhetoric – Performance in the History of Rhetoric" (PDF). American Society for the History of Rhetoric. November 16, 2005. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ Corbeill, Anthony (1997). "Thumbs in Ancient Rome: Pollex as Index". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 42. American Academy in Rome: 1. doi:10.2307/4238745. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ "The Gladiator and the Thumb". Encyclopaedia Romana. University of Chicago. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ "Anthony Corbeill – List of Publications" (PDF). University of Kansas. Retrieved March 25, 2014.