Assistant professor of Classics
ajr2242@columbia.edu617D Hamilton Hall
On Leave AY 22-23
Phone: (212)-851-9422
Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests
Historiography, especially late antiqueEpideictic oratory
Late Antique political history
Literary theory, especially narratology and intertextuality
Alan J. Ross joined Columbia in 2019. He received his BA from University College London, and MSt and DPhil from the University of Oxford. Prior to Columbia, he held research and teaching positions at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), University College Dublin (Ireland), University of Southampton (UK), and Dartmouth College (USA).
His research lies at the intersection of literary and historical studies in Late Antiquity. His first book, Ammianus’ Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae (OUP, 2016), offered a narratological and intertextual study of the last great work of Latin historiography, and he has also published a number of articles on satire, hagiography, the novel, and epideictic oratory in the fourth century. His current book project focuses on Greek political rhetoric under the sons of Constantine.
Selected Publications
Ammianus’ Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae (Oxford University Press, 2016)Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius (edited with Adrastos Omissi, Liverpool University Press, 2020)
Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire (edited with D.W.P. Burgersdijk, Brill, 2018)
“Envisioning Adventus: Ammianus between panegyric and polemic” Journal of Late Antiquity 14 (2021): 97-116.
“Text and Paratext: Reading the Emperor Julian via Libanius’ Epitaphios”, American Journal of Philology 141 (2020): 241-281
“Eremitic aemulatio: genesis of genre in Jerome’s Vita Pauli”, in C. Gray and J. Corke-Webster (eds.) The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood. Brill (2020). pp.121-147
“Authority and participation in Procopius’ Wars” in C. Lillington-Martin & E. Turquois (eds.)Procopius: Literary and Historical Approaches. Routledge (2017). pp. 73-90
“Syene as ‘Face of Battle’: Heliodorus and Late Antique Historiography”, Ancient Narrative 12 (2015): 1–26.
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