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Gwendolyn Compton-Engle, PhD
Professor - Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures
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O'Malley Center 120
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Faculty
Office Hours
Spring 2023:
M: 2:00-4:00 pm
W: 10:00 - 11:00 am
TH: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
F: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Drop-ins welcome.
Professor of Classics
Expertise:聽Greek drama; Greek and Latin language and literature
Biography
Dr. Compton-Engle teaches Latin and Greek language, literature, and culture. Recent courses include Classical Drama in English, Power and Identity in the Roman Republic, and Readings in the New Testament. Dr. Compton-Engle particularly enjoys introducing students to Latin and Greek in beginning language classes. She began teaching at John Carroll in 2002 and served as the Director of the University Core Curriculum from 2010-2013. In that capacity, she co-chaired the curriculum committee that created the current Integrative Core Curriculum. She chaired the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures from 2017-21.
Dr. Compton-Engle鈥檚 research focuses on Greek drama, especially the performance of comedy and its relationship with tragedy in the late fifth century and early fourth century BCE. 聽Her article 鈥淐ontrol of Costume in Three Plays of Aristophanes鈥 won the Gildersleeve Prize from聽The American Journal of Philology.
Select Recent Publications:
鈥淗olding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides鈥 Auge at Philyllius Fr. 4.鈥 Classical Philology 116.4 (2021), forthcoming.
鈥淢ale Stage-Nudity in Aristophanes.鈥 Illinois Classical Studies 45.2 (2020) 399-423.
Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
鈥淭he Blind Leading: Aristophanes鈥櫬Wealth听补苍诲听Oedipus at Colonus.鈥澛Classical World聽106.2 (2013) 155-170.
Degrees
- Ph.D., Cornell University
- B.A., St. Olaf College