Provost's Sabbatical Luncheon
Tuesday, October 28
Mary Griep, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Steve Reece, Professor of Classics
On behalf of Jim May, Provost and Dean of the College,
CILA announces the Fall 2008 "Provost's Sabbatical Series" Luncheon.
During her sabbatical, Mary Griep continued work on a series of large scale drawings of medieval architecture titled "Anastylosis." She also traveled to Turkey in the fall where she completed research on the Great Mosque of Divrigi. Over the summer she took part in the International Summer School at Oslo University where she studied Norwegian Art and completed research on the Stave Church at Borgund.
Steve Reece completed a monograph during his sabbatical, titled "Homer's Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory," in which he attempts to reconstruct the shape and structure of epic words and phrases as they would have appeared several generations before they were first written down in, or near, the time of Homer. He also started up a new project, "Classical Allusions in the New Testament," in which he seeks to identify previously unrecognized quotations of, and direct allusions to, Classical Greek literature in the New Testament, with special attention to the letters of Paul, and to his reported speeches in the Acts of the Apostles.
