2011 Summer Intensive Latin Workshop Teaching Staff

Director: Daniel Walin

Daniel Walin is a Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. in Classics from Baylor University in 2006 and an M.A. in Classics from Berkeley in 2007. Daniel has published articles on Aristophanes and Propertius and is currently working on a dissertation on "Slaves and Slave Characters in Aristophanic Comedy". His current interests include comedy, amatory elegy, and the representation and figuration of slavery in Greek and Latin literature. At Berkeley he has taught accelerated introductory courses in Latin and Greek (Greek 10; Greek 15; Latin 15), Greek civilization (Classics 10A, as a discussion section leader), and intermediate Latin prose composition (Latin 40).

Instructors for the First Half: John Lanier and Joel Street

Joel Street is entering his fifth year at Berkeley in the fall. He is at the beginning of the dissertation stage, focusing on Plutarch’s Life of Theseus. His interests are motley, including Greece under Rome, myths of origin, disjunctions of generic form and content, choral lyric, and wordplay. During the Greek workshop last summer, he went on a digression about Indo-European that failed so spectacularly that he bought the whole class donuts if they promised not to tell the director.

Instructor for the Second Half: Lisa Pilar Eberle

Lisa Pilar Eberle is a Ph.D. student in the Group for Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in Austria, completed her undergraduate career at the St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford in the UK and came to California in 2008. Since May 2010 she holds an M.A. in Ancient History from UC Berkeley. Her current interests include historiography, ancient law and problems of social change and continuity in the ancient Mediterranean. Her love and enthusiasm for language(s) dates to her High School and undergraduate days. She is looking forward to sharing them with her students this summer.