Elizabeth Vandiver

Elizabeth Vandiver
Born1956 (age 68–69)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materShimer College
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsWhitman College

Elizabeth Vandiver (born 1956) is an American classical scholar. She is the Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics at Whitman College, having previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] She received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 1998.[1] She also won awards for her teaching from Northwestern University and the University of Georgia.[1] In May 2013, she was awarded Whitman College's "G. Thomas Edwards Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship", the highest award that Whitman College gives to a faculty member.[2]

Work

Vandiver did undergraduate work at Shimer College in Illinois where she enrolled as an early entrant at the age of 16, after completing tenth grade. She earned a B.A. degree in 1976, and then worked several years as a librarian. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Her dissertation was on Herodotus and was published as Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History[3]. In February 2010, Oxford University Press published her study Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War.[4] She has taught at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, and Utah State University.[1]

The Teaching Company

She has recorded several highly reviewed[5] lecture series for The Teaching Company in the field of classical history and literature which include the following:

Books

  • Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History[3]. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther[12], translated and edited by Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen, and Thomas D. Frazel. Manchester University Press, 2003.
  • Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War[13] Peter Lang, 1991.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Elizabeth Vandiver". The Teaching Company. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08. Elizabeth Vandiver is associate professor of classics and Clement Biddle Penrose professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics. She completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College and went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Edwards Award". Archived from the original on 2013-06-09. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
  3. ^ a b Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956- (1991). Heroes in Herodotus : the interaction of myth and history. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang. ISBN 3631431686. OCLC 22708745.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Marguerite Johnson. "Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War". Reviews in History. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Search results for: 'vandiver'". www.thegreatcourses.com. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  6. ^ "Classical Mythology". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  7. ^ "Odyssey of Homer". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  8. ^ "Iliad of Homer". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  9. ^ "Greek Tragedy". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  10. ^ "Herodotus: The Father of History". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  11. ^ "Aeneid of Virgil". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  12. ^ Luther's lives : two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther. Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-, Keen, Ralph., Frazel, Thomas D. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 2002. ISBN 142370634X. OCLC 191941895.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Vandiver, Elizabeth. (2010). Stand in the Trench, Achilles : Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War. Oxford: OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780191572807. OCLC 714569785.