William A. Johnson
Professor in Classical Studies &
Schiff Family Dean of Humanities and the Arts
Duke University
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William A. Johnson works broadly in the cultural history of Greece and Rome, with particular interest in ancient books, readers, and reading, and with a general interest in how literary pursuits intersect with cultural context in antiquity. He has lectured and published on Plato, Hesiod, Herodotus, Pliny (both Elder and Younger), Gellius, Lucian, and on a variety of topics relating to books and readers and publishing, both ancient and modern. Other work has focused on ancient music; he produced the editio princeps for two of the very rare papyrus documents containing ancient Greek music (see Ancient Music Web Site), and has a piece on pantomime in Rome. He has published 3 monographs, 2 edited volumes, over 40 articles and book chapters, and has given more than 50 invited lectures to national and international audiences; and has received a wide range of commendations and awards. He teaches Greek, Latin, and cultural history to undergraduate and graduate audiences at Duke. He is presently taking a four-year hiatus from teaching to serve as Duke's Schiff Family Dean of Humanities & the Arts.
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Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
OUP Handbook to the Second SophisticAn introduction to the Greece and Rome of the second century that puts in socio-cultural context the important (but long neglected) literary output that falls under the rubric, "Second Sophistic" (Oxford University Press, 2017, paperback with corrections 2021).
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William A. Johnson
Department of Classical Studies Duke University P. O. Box 90103 Durham, N.C. 27708-0103 Tel. (919) 684-2082 Fax (919) 681-4262 Office: Allen Building 229B Email: william.johnson@duke.edu Skype: wjohnson925 |
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