James V. Morrison is Stodghill Professor of Classics at Centre College, where he has taught since 1993. He is a past NEH Professor and Centre Scholar and teaches courses in Greek and Latin language, history, literature, culture, and mythology, as well as freshman humanities. He has led groups of Centre College students to Greece (2000)
and to Italy (2003).
Professor Morrison’s research interests include Homer and ancient epic, Thucydides, Greek literature and philosophy, Late Republican and Augustan literature, and Caribbean Literature, especially the works of Derek Walcott. In addition to numerous articles and reviews for academic journals he is the author of two books on Homer: Homeric Misdirection: False Predictions in the
Iliad (University of Michigan Press, 1992) and A Companion to Homer’s Odyssey (Greenwood Press, 2003). A third book, Reading Thucydides, will appear in 2006 (Ohio State University Press). He has received an NEH Research Fellowship for 2006-7 to support the writing of a book entitled
Shipwrecks and the Re-invention of Self in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World.
Prior to joining the Centre faculty, Morrison taught at Davidson College and Georgetown University on a visiting basis.
Morrison holds a B.A. in philosophy and history from Oberlin College, an M.A. in classics from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in classical studies from the University of Michigan.
College news contact:
Communications Office
Centre College
Danville, KY 40422
Telephone 859-238-5719
File last updated:
9/5/08
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