Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature

Biographical notes

William W. Batstone (Volume editor) Garth Tissol (Volume editor)

The Editors: William W. Batstone is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on Vergil’s Georgics. He is interested in literature and literary theory and has written on both the prose and poetry of the republic and early empire, including Catullus, Cicero, Propertius, Vergil, and Caesar, and modern theoretical perspectives, including Heidegger, Bakhtin, and Gadamer. He is currently working on a book on Caesar’s commentaries on the Civil War. Garth Tissol, Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University, received his Ph.D. in classics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid’s «Metamorphoses» as well as articles on Ovid, Vergil, and Dryden’s translations of Latin literature. He is currently working on an edition and commentary on Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto, Book 1.