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Mark Farmer, Ph.D.
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Loyola University, Chicago
Associate
Professor of Classics
Professor Farmer joined the Department in 2000.
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EDUCATION
Dissertation: "Cicero's
Use of Auctoritas and of the Opposing Advocate
as Means of Persuasion in De Finibus Bonorum
et Malorum"
Ph.D., 2000, Loyola University, Chicago
M.A., 1996, Loyola University,
Chicago
B.A., 1993, University of
California -- Irvine
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
primary:
(1) Roman Oratory and Rhetoric, (2) Classical
Mythology, (3) Greek and Roman Epic, (4) Greek Drama,
(5) Petronian Studies
secondary:
(1) Bronze Age and Roman Archaeology, (2) Greek and
Roman Art, (3) Roman Epistolary Literature
RECENT PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS,
AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• In spring 2006, Professor Farmer was named the 2006-2007 recipient of the Valparaiso University Caterpillar Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• Professor Farmer's paper "The Katabatic
Heroic Journey and the MATRIX" was accepted for the 2003 APA Conference.
• Professor Farmer presented
"Opening Pandora's Box: Classical Mythology and Technology" at the
IFLTA (Indiana Foreign Language Teacher's Association) Conference.
• He hosted the Indiana
Classical Conference spring meeting at VU in March 2002.
• In April 2001, Professor
Farmer presented "Say what you mean and mean what you say: Consistency
in the works of Cicero" at the CAMWS.
• Professor Farmer presented
a paper entitled "Cicero's use of the father-son relationship in
his speeches" at the American Philological Association conference
in December 2000.
• He serves as secretary of Indiana's
chapter of the American Institute of Archaeology.
• Professor Farmer serves
also as editor for books in Classics for "Religious Studies Review."
• He has also served
as advisor to Eta Sigma Phi, the Classics Honor Society, accompanying
five members to the society's annual conference along with Professor
Emeritus John Helms in 2000.
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