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Biography
Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of 海角网 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Earlier in his career, he was the author of The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987) and Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in 海角网 Poetry (Cambridge 1998). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge book series 海角网 Literature and its Contexts (13 volumes, with the final regular title published in 2016, but with a surprise late addition now on the way). Among Stephen's more recent articles are 'Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae' (2016), 'Pastoral and its Futures: Reading like (a) Mantuan' (2017), 'In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others' (2020), 'Ovid's exile poetry and zombies' (2023), and 'Bann Valley Eclogues' (2025, on Seamus Heaney); details in the pdf CV linked to this page. His new book (Cambridge 2026), with the title Latin Poetry across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition, offers exploration of the cross-linguistic and intercultural relations of Latin literature, both in antiquity and between antiquity and (early) modernity. A recently resumed project is a Cambridge 鈥榞reen and yellow鈥� commentary on Ovid, Tristia 1. Stephen's page on academia.edu offers access to some work in progress, along with less readily accessible items among his recent publications; he added further pdfs from his backlist during the pandemic period of restricted access to libraries.
Research
Selected Research
- Stephen E. Hinds. Latin Poetry Across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition. Cambridge: CUP, 2026
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Bann Valley Eclogues", in Antony Augoustakis, Stavros Frangoulidis and Thea S. Thorsen (eds.), Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception, Trends in 海角网 Suppl. vol. 176 (De Gruyter) 2025, 397-412
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Disruptores do verso latino na Antiguidade Tardia: Proba como (n茫o)Aus么nio", Cal铆ope: Presen莽a Cl谩ssica 47(2024) [publ. 2025], 210-31
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Ovid's exile poetry and zombies", in Joseph Farrell, John Miller, Damien Nelis, Alessandro Schiesaro (eds.), Ovid, Death and Transfiguration, Brill: Mnemosyne Supplements 2023, 251-66
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Foreword." In Denis Feeney, Explorations in Latin Literature (2 vols.), Cambridge U.P. 2021, ix-xix
- Stephen E. Hinds. "In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others." In Syrithe Pugh, ed., Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality, Manchester U.P. 2020, 55-90
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Pre- and Post-Digital Poetics of 'Transliteralism': Some Greco-海角网 Epic Incipits." In Neil Coffee, Chris Forstall, Lavinia Galli Mili膰, Damien Nelis, eds., Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry, Trends in 海角网 suppl. vol. 64 (De Gruyter) 2020, 421-45
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Pastoral and its Futures: Reading like (a) Mantuan." Dictynna 14 (2017) [30pp. on paper] http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae." In L. Fulkerson and T. Stover, eds., Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses, U. Wisconsin P. 2016, 249-78
- Stephen E. Hinds. "The self-conscious cento." Chapter in Decadence: 'Decline and Fall' or 'Other Antiquity.' Heidelberg: Winter: 2014. 171-97.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Displacing Persephone: Epic between Worlds." UCL Housman Lecture (limited-circulation pamphlet). University College London, Dept of Greek and Latin: 2013.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae." Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature, eds. T.D. Papanghelis, S.J. Harrison, S. Frangoulidis. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 169-92.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the Barbarian Turn: Tristia, Regrets, Translations." in J. Ingleheart, ed., Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid. Oxford: OUP: 2011. 59-83.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Seneca鈥檚 Ovidian Loci." Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, quarta serie 9. 2011. 5-63.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Between Formalism and Historicism." in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel, eds., The Oxford Handbook of 海角网 Studies. Oxford: OUP: 2010. 369-85.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Martial's Ovid/Ovid's Martial." Journal of 海角网 Studies 97 (2007): 113-54.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Dislocations of Ovidian Time." in J.P. Schwindt, ed., La repr茅sentation du temps dans la po茅sie august茅enne / Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung. Heidelberg: Winter: 2005. 203-30.
- Stephen E. Hinds. "Landscape with Figures: Aesthetics of Place in the Metamorphoses and its Tradition." in P. Hardie, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. 122-49.
- Stephen E. Hinds. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in 海角网 Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
- Stephen E. Hinds. The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse. Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
- In progress. Commentary on Tristia 1, Ovid's first book of poetry from exile, under contract with Cambridge U.P. in the series Cambridge Greek and Latin 海角网.
Research Advised
- Liam Holbrook, "Imitations of the Parthenon: Homer and his Translators." Senior Essay, 2024.
- Gargi Pradhan, "From Statues to Simulations: An Analysis of Male Desire and its Manifestations in Media." Senior Essay, 2024.
- Danika Kwak, "Asexuality in Greek and 海角网 海角网: The Rejection of the Erotic Sphere by Ovid's Narcissus and Euripides' Hippolytus." Senior Essay, 2024.
- Grace Funsten. En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Lab茅. Diss., 2022.
- Xiaoran Luo. Polyphemus and His World: A Literary History from the Odyssey to the Hellenistic Period. Diss., 2021.
- Emma J. Brobeck. Craftsmen, Identity, and Status in the Literature of Flavian Rome. Diss., 2021.
- Sophie Emilia Seidler. Monstrous Texts and Textual Monsters: Transgressive Hybridity in Ovid's Metamorphoses. MA thesis, 2020.
- Michael McAdams. "Catullus and Fragile Masculinity: An Analysis of Gender Concepts from the 海角网 Republic and their Impact on Modern Homophobia and Rape Culture." Senior Essay, 2020.
- Elizabeth Abel. "From Antiquity to Modernity: Psychological Constructs of Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses." Senior Essay, 2020.
- Piers Foley. "The Depiction of Battle between Homer and Virgil." Senior Essay, 2019.
- David Bloomsburg. "The Scale of the Epic Cast in Watership Down, The Lord of the Rings, and Vergil's Aeneid." Honors Thesis, 2018.
- Rose Bugel-Shunra. "Lamentation in Catullus 64 and Implications Thereof." Senior Essay, 2018.
- Robert Szender. "Catullus and Vergil: An Inquiry into Influence and Allusion." Senior Essay, 2018.
- Daniel A. Conner. Mille simul leti facies: The Allusive Battlefield of Punica 4. Diss., 2018
- Alberto Requejo. Columella's Georgics: Form, Method, Intertextuality, Ideology. Diss., 2017.
- Christopher Mowers, "Medea: A Director's Portfolio." Senior Essay, 2017.
- Gessica Adornato. "Intertextuality between the Myth of Er, the Somnium Scipionis, and Book 6 of the Aeneid." Senior Essay, 2017.
- Tim Gleghorn. Locus Amoenus: Scenes of a Pastoral 海角网ce. Senior Essay, 2017.
- Matthew Gorey. Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder. Diss., 2017.
- Adriana M. Vazquez. Vates and Initiates: Augustan Poetic Manipulation of Greek Mystery Cult. Diss., 2017.
- Joshua J. Hartman. Allusion and Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity: Ausonius, Prudentius, and Claudian. Diss., 2016.
- Bridget Langley. Written on Running Water: Ovidian Poetics in the 海角网 Waterscape. Diss., 2016.
- Colin Shelton. Semantics and the Structure of Latin Etymological Wordplay. Diss., 2011.
- Honors thesis students 2002-2010. Catherine Basl, Marie La Fond, Jacqui Pincus (all 2009-10), Nicholas Rupert (2008-09), Josh Fincher (2007-08), Jody Valentine (2002-03).
- Erika J. Nesholm. Rhetoric and Epistolary Exchange in Ovid's Heroides 16-21. Diss., 2005.
- Ethan T. Adams. Gods and Humans in Ovid's Metamorphoses : Constructions of Identity and the Politics of Status. Diss., 2003.
- Christopher M. Chinn. Statius and the Discourse of Ekphrasis. Diss., 2002.
- Daniel Curley. Metatheater: Heroines and Ephebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Diss., 1999.
- Braden Mechley. Reading (with) the Animals: Lucretius' Creatures and his Poetic Program. Diss., 1998 (co-chair).