Rate My Professor Janice Siegel

Dr. Janice Siegel is Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics Department at Hampden-Sydney College. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a focus on Latin and Greek from Rutgers University in 1994, her M.A. in Comparative Literature (Latin and Greek) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature (Latin and French) from the same institution in 1983. Her teaching areas include Latin and Greek language and literature with an emphasis on Latin poetics, classical literature in translation, mythology, classical civilization, genre studies, thematics, humanities, comparative literature, and the classical tradition particularly in film. She organizes study abroad trips to Greece and Turkey.

Dr. Siegel's research specializations encompass Latin philology and intertextuality, Augustan Age poetry especially Ovid, classical reception, and classics and mythology in film. Notable publications include "The Coens' O Brother Where Art Thou? and Homer's Odyssey" in Mouseion, The Classical Journal of Canada 7.3 (2007, pp. 213-245), "Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Euripides' Bacchae" in The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11.4 (2005, pp. 538-70), "Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney Procne" in Classical Culture and Myth in the Cinema edited by Martin M. Winkler (Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 233-257), and annual surveys "Audio-Visual Materials in Classics" in Classical World (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012). Ongoing book projects include Ovid's Procne: A Case Study in Intertext and Teaching Classical Mythology with Television and Film. She has presented papers such as "Meta-Didacticism in Ovid's Poetry" at the Classical Association of the Middle, West and South (2010) and "The Cyclopic Reavers of Joss Whedon's Firefly" at the University of Liverpool (2013). Awards and honors include a Fulbright Scholarship for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Spetses, Greece, Mellon Grant and Bortz Technology Award at Hampden-Sydney College, and Violet B. Ketels Award for Excellence in Teaching at Temple University. Dr. Siegel serves on numerous committees including Promotion and Tenure and International Studies, advises student organizations, acts as Collegiate Membership Director for the Classical Association of Virginia, and maintains "Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World" website with an extensive audio-visual database for classics educators.