Faculty & Staff
Emily McDermott, PhD
- Professor of Classics, Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty Professor
- Telephone: 617-287-5713
- Email: emily.mcdermott@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Quinn,03, Suite 72
Areas of Expertise
Greek tragedy, Late Republican and Augustan poetry, Classical Reception
Degrees
PhD 1973, Yale University
Additional Information
Emily McDermott came to UMass Boston in 1974, with a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in Classics from Yale. In her time at the University, she has taught over thirty-five different undergraduate and graduate courses, including Core classes, First-Year Seminars, Honors Seminars, and (most recently) online courses. As the first among her colleagues to immerse herself in oral-Latin conventicula, she initiated the department’s present seminal focus on application of second-language acquisition theory to the teaching of Latin. Her publications center on joint specializations in Greek tragedy, with particular focus on Euripides, and Augustan Latin poetry, especially Horace. Most recently, she has turned her scholarly attention to Reception Studies, publishing numerous articles on classical education through the centuries and on classical elements in authors as diverse as Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Louis de Bernières, Ethan Canin, and Charles Frazier. Administratively, she has spent ten of her thirty-seven years on campus as Chair of the Classics Department, five in the 1980’s as Assistant Chancellor under Robert A. Corrigan, and seven first as Associate Dean, then as Interim Dean of Graduate Studies. In August, 2011, she assumed the role of Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, but she expects to remain active in online instruction in the department.
For Professor McDermott's Author Page in ScholarWorks see: http://works.bepress.com/emily_mcdermott
