Judith P. Hallett

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Judith P. Hallett
Alma mater Harvard University
Academic career
Discipline Classics
Sub-discipline Latin
Classical reception studies
Institutions University of London
University of Maryland

Judith P. Hallett is Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita of Classics, having formerly been the Graduate Director at the Department of Classics, University of Maryland. Her research focuses on women, the family, and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, particularly in Latin literature. She is also an expert on classical education and reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Biography

Hallett received a BA from Wellesley College and an MA and PhD from Harvard University (1971).

While at Harvard, she studied at the American Academy in Rome. Later on, she spent a year at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London. She was elected to the American Philological Association Board of Directors for 1997–1999, and appointed the Vice-President of that Association's Division of Outreach in 1999. She was president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in 2000. From 2000 to 2009, she coordinated the CAAS meetings. She was also elected the APA Vice-President for Outreach for 2008–2011. She was a member of the Maryland Humanities Council from 2001 to 2011. From 2002 to 2009 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Hebrew University, and in 2010 she was appointed to the board of directors of the Thornton Wilder Society. She was also elected president for 2013–2015 of the Gamma of Maryland Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. [1]

She has participated in several TV shows as an expert guest. From 1986 until 1994 she appeared on the Canadian radio show The Court of Ideas. She was interviewed by Sander Vanocur for the History Channel/A&E series Movies in Time. For the same channels, she was part of a segment for the Valentine's Special on the five greatest love affairs of history and their series The History of Sex (1999). In 2001, she was a consultant for the PBS series The Roman Empire in the First Century, making an appearance on every episode aired. [2]

Hallett is also a founding co-editor of the journal EuGesTa (Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity). [3]

Honors

Hallett has been honored by the publishing of a festschrift (a celebratory collection of articles) for her contributions to the study of Roman literature and culture. The title of the festschrift is Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris. [4] She also received the Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC) Activism Award for the year 2015. This award is given to members who have promoted the rights and well-being of sexual minorities beyond the usual academic activities. [5] She was the Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome for 2017–2018. [6] In March 2018, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Eta Sigma Phi, the citation drawing attention not only to her research and teaching but also to her 'stalwart service for the profession'. [7] In April 2018, a one-day international colloquium on women and classical scholarship was held at the University of Maryland to honor her retirement. [8] In 2023 she, along with her co-editors Bartolo Natoli and Angela Pitts, won the Bolchazy-Carducci Pedagogy Award for the book Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome. [9]

Throughout her career, Hallett authored (and co-authored) many ovationes (celebratory speeches written in Latin) of her fellow classical scholars. These Latin compositions were usually delivered at annual meetings of notable organizations within Classical Studies, such as the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. [10]

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