THOMASHABINEK, Professor of Classics at the University of Southern
California, is a specialist in Latin literature and Roman cultural history.
His many publications includeThe Colometry of Latin Prose(1985),The
Politics of Latin Literature(1998), andThe World of Roman Song(2005),
winner of the Classics and Ancient History Award presented by the
Association of American Publishers. He is currently investigating the
potential impact of new developments in neuroscience, cognition, and
evolution on issues and problems in the humanities.
GEORGEW. HOUSTONis Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include Latin
literature, Latin epigraphy, Roman technology, and libraries and book
collections in the Roman world. He has published extensively on ancient
libraries, including papers on the personnel of public libraries (TAPA
2002), public libraries in the city of Rome (MEFRA2006; with T. Keith
Dix), and book collections in Egypt (GRBS2007). He is currently at
work, with T. Keith Dix, on a book-length study of the contents and
management of book collections in the Roman world.
WILLIAMA. JOHNSONis Associate Professor of Classics and Head of
Department at the University of Cincinnati. He works broadly in the
cultural history of Greece and Rome, with particular interest in ancient
books, readers, and reading. Among his many articles is the winner of the
2000 Gildersleeve Prize, ‘‘Towards a Sociology of Reading in Classical
Antiquity.’’Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus, a close study of ancient
papyrus bookrolls, was published in 2004, and he is presently completing
a volume,Readers and Reading Culture in the High Empire, for Oxford
University Press.
KRISTINAMILNORis Associate Professor of Classics at Barnard College in
New York City. She is the author ofGender, Domesticity, and the Age of
Augustus: Inventing Private Life(2005), which won the 2006 Goodwin
Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. Her research
interests include early imperial prose and poetry, feminist theory and
gender studies, and the intersection of material and literary cultures. She
has published articles on Plautus, Sulpicia, Livy, the graffiti art movement
in the 1970s, and Barbie 1. She is currently working on her second book,
on literary graffiti from Roman Pompeii.
DAVIDR. OLSONis University Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is author ofThe
World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and
Reading(Cambridge University Press 1994),Psychological Theory and
Educational Reform(2003), andJerome Bruner(2007). He is editor with
Nancy Torrance of the forthcomingCambridge Handbook of Literacy.
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