Athanassios Vergados - Curriculum Vitae#

Education:

• 2007 Ph.D. in Classics, University of Virginia
  Dissertation: “A Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes”
  Adviser: Jenny Strauss Clay
  
• 2005 University of Cincinnati: Summer Seminar of the American Society of Papyrologists
  
• 2002 M.A. in Classics, University of Virginia
  Thesis title: “Aristophanes and the New Music”
  
• 1999 Ptychion (B.A.) in Classics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  
• 1996 Hellenikon Odeion (Athens), Diploma in Music – Performance (Violin)

Academic Employment:

• 2020 Professor of Greek, Newcastle University
  
• (Research Fellow of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study: 2023/24)
  
• (Visiting Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma: Spring 2022).
  
• 2017 - 2020 Reader in Greek, Newcastle University (tenured)
  
• 2013 - 2017 W-3 Professur für Klassische Philologie: Griechische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg (temporary, 5-year position, at the rank of full professor)
  
• 2012 - 2013 Assistant Professor of Classics (tenure-track), University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  
• 2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Universität Heidelberg
  
• 2007 - 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
  
• 2001 - 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia

Over 80 conference papers/invited talks in English, German, Italian, Greek

Professional service (selection):

Referee for: Classical Journal; Classical Quarterly; College Literature; eClassica; Eranos; Gaia; Greece & Rome; Greek and Roman Musical Studies; History of Classical Scholarship; Illinois Classical Studies; Journal of Hellenic Studies; Kleos: Amsterdam Bulletin of Ancient Studies and Archaeology; L’Antiquité Classique; Lexis; Materiali e Discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici; Mnemosyne; Philologus; Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica; Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, Oxford University Press; Edition Exzellenz-Cluster Topoi, Berlin; Brill (Mnemosyne Supplements); Routledge.

External examiner for Classics at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick (2024– ).

Member of the World Philology Union (2023– ).

Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (invited in May 2022); of the Classical Association Journals Board (2019–).

Vice-president of Etygram (Etymologies Grecques Antiques et Médiévales); of the editorial board of Phaos: Revista de Estudos Clássicos (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil).

Project reviewer for: the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; member of the peer-review college in Classics/Greek Literature for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Newcastle University: Post-Graduate Research Director and member of the School Executive Board, Chair of the School Graduate Committee, Member of the Faculty Post-graduate Committee (2019–2022)

Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Klassische Philologie: Geschäftsführender Direktor (2015–2016)