Faculty and Staff

Conrad Barrett
Professor of Classics
cbarrett@csulb.edu
(562) 985-7575
Office: MHB 701

Ph.D. Classics, USC, 1973
M.A. Latin, UCLA, 1965
B.A. Classics, Stanford University, 1958

Interests: Apuleius, Greek Mythology, Greek and Latin Pedagogy, Late Latin Rhetoric, Latin Novel

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UC San Diego, 1972
M.A. Social Work, Tulane University, 1988
A.B. French and English, Indiana University, 1967

Interests: Modern Literary Theory, Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Twentieth Century French Literature

Christina Bowman
Lecturer in Classics tina@bowmandesigngroup.com
(562) 985-4217
Office: MHB 318

Ph.D. English, USC, 1980
M.A. English, USC, 1975
B.A. Classics and English, CSULB, 1973

Interests: Women in the Ancient World, Mythology

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, USC, 1981
M.A. Comparative Literature, USC, 1971
B.A. English, CSULB, 1968

Interests: Interdisciplinary Studies (literature & film, literature & music), European Literature (19th & 20th centuries), Latin American & Caribbean Literature, World Mythology (major systems & theories), Pan-African Literary Traditions (Afro-American, Afro-Hispanic, francophone African poetry)

Interests: Greek and Latin Novels, Greek Literature, the Hellenistic Period, Late Antiquity, Hagiography, Sanskrit Literature, Latin Teacher Preparation

Interests: Post-colonial Literature, Cultural Theory, Middle Eastern Literature, Interdisciplinary Studies, 19th Century French Literature, Exilic Francophone Literatures in Canada/Québec

Interests: Ancient numismatics, Claudius Aelianus, Ancient Greek law, Menander, Isaios

Interests: Folklore and Mythology, World Literature

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1992
M.A. Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1985
B.A. Humanities/Philosophy, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1980

Interests: 18th & 19th Century European Literature, Comedy and Satire, Literature and History, Medicine & Literature, Visual Culture

M.A. Rabbinic Literature, University of Judaism
B.A. English Literature, UC Berkeley

Interests: Psychoanalytic Theory, Early Modern and Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Exilic and Diasporic Literatures, Early Modern Poetry and Drama

B.A. Comparative Literature, CSULB, 1972

Interest: (Theater) Comedy

M.A. Classical Languages, UCSB
M.A. English Literature, University of Illinois-Urbana
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Oregon
B.A. English Literature, University of Illinois-Urbana

Interests: Architecture of the Prehistoric Aegean; Ancient Greece, and Rome; Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology; Greek Archaeology; and Roman Greece and Asia Minor

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. French Language and Civilization, NYU
B.A. French, Amherst College

Interests: Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval & Renaissance French, Spanish and Italian Literature, Kingship and Queenship, Postmodernism, Visual Culture, Travel Literature, Comic Books, Science Fiction

Interests: Late Antique Culture; Mythology, Theology, and Religion of Greece and Rome; Food in the Ancient World; the Ancient World in Theatre & Film; Lucian & the Second Sophistic; Dionysus

Interests: Classical Mythology, Greek Literature

Interests: Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Literature, 20th Century Literature, East European Literature

Interests: Comedy, Japanese Literature, Film/Mass Media Theory

Interests: Horace, Sophists, Sappho/Alcaeus

Interests: Asian Fiction and Film, Sanskrit, Ethnic Literature in America, Japanese Literature and Culture, Cambodian Literature and Culture