Shane Hawkins - College of the Humanities

Dr. Shane Hawkins ( He/Him )

Greek and Roman Studies, Associate Professor, Director of the College of the Humanities

BA, University of Minnesota; M.Studies, Corpus Christi, Oxford; MA and PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill; Fulbright Vienna, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Indogermanistik.
300 Paterson Hall, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Email Dr. Shane Hawkins
613-520-2600 ext 8143

Biography

I came to �Ӱ�ԭ�� in 2005. I teach Ancient Greek and Latin language courses, classical mythology, Greek literature, Greek civilization, and sometimes Old Persian and Old Norse. Since 2016 I have served as the Director of the College of the Humanities.

Research Interests

Historical and comparative Indo-European linguistics, especially Greek and Latin; Greek lyric and invective poetry (esp. Archilochus, Hipponax); Catullus; Digital Humanities. Currently in preparation:

with �Ӱ�ԭ�� students, an edition of Antonius Parthenius’ fifteenth-century commentary on Catullus.
Greek Iambic Poetry. Aris & Philips.
with Michael Weiss, Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek.

2024/2025 Courses

GREK 3900A: Advanced Greek (F)
HUMS 1300A: Classical Literature and Its Reception (W)

Books

2021 Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press. — 2021 (editor) Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press.

2013 Studies in the Language of Hipponax. Bremen. — 2021 (editor) Access and Control in the Digital Humanities. Routledge Press.

Some Publications

Forthcoming

‘Hipponax 40W/49D Μαλίς †κονισκε† and Lydian Malis’, in Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici.
‘Game of Throws: Some Ritual Elements in Hipponax,’ in: V. Casato and E. Prodi, eds. Framing Hipponax. Cambridge University Press
‘Heracles’ Lyric Labours’, in G.W.M. Harrison, ed. A Companion to Heracles (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
Review in BMCR of Mitchell, Stephen. Catullus: selected poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.
2025 ‘Once more unto the breach: mesostic and epitaph in Catullus poem 60’, Classical Quarterly 1-25.

2012-2024

2024 ‘Food for the Lewd: Ananius fr. 5 & 6W’, American Journal of Philology 145(4):465-495, 2024.
2024 ‘Hammer of the gods: The heavy metal reception and reforging of Thor’, Metal Music Studies 10(3): 217-232. Co-authored with Timothy Pettipiece.
2023 ‘Aristophanes Clouds 344 and some prominent noses’, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 133: 67-86.
2019 ‘Archilochus 222W and 39W: Allusion and Reception, Hesiod and Catullus’, Philologus 163(2), 16-46.
2018 ‘Catullus c. 11 and the Iambic Herald’, Paideia: rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria 73, 1605-1616; special issue in honor of Giuseppe G. Biondi, Catullus: models, manuscript tradition, Fortleben.
2018 ‘Selig wer auch Zeichen gibt: Leibniz as Historical Linguist’, The European Legacy23(5), 510-521.
2014 Catullus c. 60: Lesbia, Medea, Clodia, Scylla,’ American Journal of Philology 135(4), 559-598.
2012 ‘A Linguistic Analysis of the Vase Inscriptions of Sophilos’, Glotta 88, 122-165.
2012 ‘The Oscanism salaputium in Catullus 53’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 142(2), 329–353.