Robert Holschuh Simmons
Contact Information
E-mail: rhsimmon@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA
1110
Office
Phone: 336-334-5214
At UNCG Since: 2006
Education
Ph.D.
University of Iowa – 2006
M.A.T. Minnesota
State University, Mankato – 1995
B.A. St.
John's University (MN) – 1993
Research Interests
Dr. Simmons’ research focuses on class conflict spurred by elite responses
to Athens’ demagogic politics during the Peloponnesian War. He is especially
interested in the way that these tensions are revealed in tragedy and comedy
of the time. His current book project, Class Anxiety in Euripides’ Plays
of the Peloponnesian War, explores ways in which Euripides’ tragedies of
this period reveal the sorts of aristocratic anxieties about the influential
role of demagogues and common Athenian citizens that is more typically associated
with the comic poet Aristophanes, the pamphleteer known as the Old Oligarch,
and others.
Selected Publications
- “Deconstructing a Father’s Love: Catullus 72 and 74.” Classical World 104.1: 29-57. 2010.
- Review of Matthew Wright, Euripides: Orestes (Duckworth 2008). Classical Journal Online 2010.01.02.
- Review of Jennifer Wallace, The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (Cambridge 2007). Classical Bulletin 85 (2009): 116-17.
Selected Awards and Honors
- Lloyd International Honors College Course Development Grant, UNCG, 2007.
