Dr Peter Keegan
BA (Hons) Macquarie, PhD Macquarie, Grad.Dip.Hum (Classical Languages) UNE
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Macquarie University Research Fellow Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8819 |
Profile
Dr Peter Keegan is a Macquarie University Research Fellow. His fields of research and teaching include Latin epigraphic culture, the history of gender, sexuality and the body in the Mediterranean world, late Republican and early Imperial Roman historiography and historical theory.
External Appointments
- 2006: Inaugural Gale Scholar, British School at Rome
Grants (last 5 years)
- 2006: Macquarie University Gale Scholarship
- 2005: Macquarie University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2002: University of Wollongong Research Development Grant
- 2001: Macquarie University Research Development Grant
- 2001: University of New England Research Development Grant
- 2000: Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund Grant
Publications
Books (edited)
Text, Artifact, Context: The Interaction of Literature, Material Culture
and Mentality in the Ancient World (University of New England Press
2001)
Research Articles
‘W. V. Harris and the will-to-generalize: fe/male participation in
the epigraphic process’ in Peter Keegan (ed.), Text, Artifact,
Context: The Interaction of Literature, Material Culture and Mentality in
the Ancient World (University of New England Press 2001) 140-59
‘Seen, Not Heard: feminea lingua in Ovid’s Fasti and the critical gaze’, in Geraldine Herbert-Brown (ed.), Ovid’s Fasti: Historical Studies at its Bimillenium (Oxford, 2002) 129-153
‘Roman Gaia and the Discourse of Patronage: Inscription(s) of Sex/Gender in Ancient Latin Epigraphy’, LILITH: A Feminist Journal of History 11 (October, 2002) 103-116
‘Faint Praise in Pain(t)ed Phrases: A Narratological Reading of the Laudatio Murdiae’, ERAS 4: School of Historical Studies On-Line Journal (November, 2002)
‘What the actress said to the Republican on the streets of Rome: Plato, feminism, and the (re)presentation of culture’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 7.1 and 2 (November, 2003) 90-105
‘Boudica, Cartimandua, Messalina and Agrippina the Younger. Independent Women of Power and the Gendered Rhetoric of Roman History’, Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 34.2 (2005) 99-148
‘Writing and Drawing on the Walls of Pompeii: How the study of graffiti relates to the HSC Ancient History Core Syllabus for 2006’, Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 35.1 (2006) 37-64
‘Quando Stercus Delatum Est: What was removed from the Aedes Vestae?’ New England Classical Journal 35.2 (March 2008) 91-97
‘Turia, Lepidus, and Rome’s Epigraphic Environment’ Studia
Humaniora Tartuensia 9 (2008)
[http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2008/keegan1.pdf]
Papers at general education seminars and conferences (selection only)
‘GAIA: the Inverse Function of Latin C as an Integral Calculation of Roman Gender’, Macquarie University Postgraduate Conference, Macquarie University (October 1998)
‘Epitaph and imagination: engaging with a(n Other) world of thought’, Australian Society for Classical Studies XXIV (conference), University of Adelaide (February 2001)
‘Acte the sorceress: black magic, poison, and other aspects of family life in ancient Rome’, Hecate at the Crossroads: Magic in the Ancient World (conference), University of New England (September 2001)
‘Texting Rome: graffiti at Pompeii’, Transform: History Week (seminar), Museum of Ancient Cultures (September 2005)
‘Graffiti as speech-act and cultural discourse’, Orality and Literacy VII: orality – literacy – memory (conference), University of Auckland (July 2006)
‘Just scratching the surface: an introduction to Latin graffiti (and other vulgar discourse) at Pompeii and Herculaneum’, Macquarie Ancient History Association HSC Study Day, Price Theatre (September 2006)
‘Graffiti under the Caesars: reading inscribed cursive (con)texts on the Palatine and elsewhere’, Research Seminars at the Universities of Christchurch and Dunedin (September 2007)
‘Reading the “Pages” of the Domus Caesaris: pueri delicati, slave education, and the graffiti of the Palatine paedagogium’, 6th E. Togo Salmon Conference on Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture, McMaster University (October 2007)
‘Social Literacy in Venus’ city: Viewing Pompeian Inscriptions in Context’, Macquarie University History Teachers’ Conference (April 2008)
‘Sources for Understanding Roman Pompeii’, History Teachers’ Association HSC Study Day, University of Sydney (June 2008)
‘ "Behind every great man …”: the life and times of Agrippina II’, Macquarie Ancient History Association HSC Study Day, Macquarie University (September 2008)
‘Texting Rome: graffiti as speech-act and cultural discourse’, Ancient Graffiti in Context Research Workshop, Leicester University (November 2008)
‘Reconstructing the epigraphic culture of funerary space in the
Roman city’, 8th Roman Archaeology Conference, University of Michigan
(April 2009)
Book Reviews
Brian K. Harvey, Roman Lives: Ancient Roman Life as Illustrated by Latin Inscriptions (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.07)
Timothy P. Wiseman, The Myths of Rome (BMCR 2005.09.02)
Mary Beard and Keith Hopkins, The Colosseum (Classical Bulletin 82.1)
James H. S. McGregor, Rome from the Ground Up (BMCR 2006.05.28)
Richard J. King. Desiring Rome. Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid’s Fasti (BMCR 2007.02.38)
Kinuko Hasegawa. The Familia Urbana during the Early Empire. A Study of Columbaria Inscriptions (BMCR 2007.05.37)
Valerie M. Warrior, Livy. The History of Rome, Books 1-5 (Classical Bulletin
83.2)
- Links
- Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/