Career
Dominik received his PhD in Classical Studies from Monash University in 1989 after gaining an MA in Classical Humanities from Texas Tech University in 1982. He taught at the University of Natal from 1991 to 2001,where he rose to the rank of Professor and Chair of Classics and Director of the Program in Classics. Dominik moved to the University of Otago as Professor and Chair of Classics in 2002,where he served as Head of the Department of Classics from 2002 to 2009;he was awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2015.
An idiosyncratic aspect of Dominik's career has been its wide international dimension and sustained academic mobility. In addition to holding the aforecited established posts at the University of Natal and the University of Otago,he has served (or has served) in recent years as Visiting Professor of Classical Studies at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2024–2026);Invited/Visiting Professor,Integrated Researcher,and Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon (2018–present);Extraordinary Professor of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch (2025–2028);and CAPES Visiting Foreign Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (2010,2016–2017). He has also held visiting professorships and other teaching/research positions at Texas Tech University (1981–1982,1990–1991),Monash University (1985–1988),University of Leeds (1997–1998),University of Cambridge (2000–2001),University of Edinburgh (2006–2007),and the University of Oxford (2013).
Research
Dominik is the author or editor of a few hundred publications [9] (mainly chapters in edited books and journal articles and reviews),including sixteen monographs,on Latin literature,especially Roman epic of the Flavian period;Roman rhetoric;the classical tradition and reception;lexicography;etymology;and other topics. Dominik's research is significant for its emphasis upon the political,especially critical and dissident,aspects of imperial Roman literature (to which one critic refers as “la osadía de Dominik" [10] );its positive hermeneutic approach to the literature and rhetoric of the imperial era;and its treatment of a range of writers in Latin literature and rhetoric from the Early Republic through Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.
Distinctive features of Dominik's research and pedagogical output are its wide disciplinary range and its collaborative character. In addition to his work on Roman epic,rhetoric,and literary reception,his publications address political and ideological writing,satire,historiography,myth criticism,translation studies,lexicography,and etymology. Dominik’s scholarship engages with Latin writers from the Republican through Late Antique periods (e.g.,Ennius,Vergil,Horace,Ovid,Seneca the Younger,Petronius,Martial,Statius,Silius Italicus,Valerius Flaccus,Tacitus,Pliny the Younger,Quintilian,Claudian,Sidonius Apollinaris,Ausonius,Dracontius,and Corippus) and Greek authors from Archaic Greece through Late Antiquity (e.g.,Homer,Euripides,Sophocles,Apollonius of Rhodes,Philostratus,and Quintus Smyrnaeus). His work also engages with medieval and Renaissance writers in the transmission and later reception of classical literature.
The collaborative dimension of Dominik’s scholarly activities is reflected in his extensive editorial and academic service. In addition to serving as the founding editor and manager of the Classics series Scholia:Studies in Classical Antiquity (1992–2011), [11] Dominik has served as a referee for over seven score publishers,journals,and institutions. He has also supervised,examined,and moderated more than a gross of postgraduate and honours dissertations.
Dominik has delivered (or undertaken to deliver) over eightscore lectures and papers,including invited or commemorative presentations such as a University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics Literature Seminar (2000); [12] [13] an Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the University of Otago (2002); [14] [15] the keynote address at the Federal University of Bahia Inaugural Classics Colloquium (2010); [16] [17] the Third Biennial Constantine Leventis Memorial Lecture at the University of Ibadan (2010); [18] [19] a Royal Society of New Zealand National Identity Symposium Presentation (2011); [20] [21] an Oxford Philological Society lecture (2013); [22] [23] the Inaugural Seminar at the Federal University of Sergipe Postgraduate Program in History (2016); [24] [25] and a keynote speech at the Thirty-fifth Biennial Conference of the Classical Association of South Africa (2025).
Dominik has received over a couple of hundred individual research fellowships,grants,and awards (including renewals and sponsored visits),such as a Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Leeds (1997-1998);a South African Human Sciences Research Council Established Researcher Grant (1997-1998);a Visiting Research Fellowship at Clare Hall,Cambridge (2000-2001);an Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2006-2007); [26] a Visiting Research Centre Associateship at St. John's College,Oxford (2013);a Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne's College,Oxford (2013);and a Foundation for Science and Technology Research Fellowship at the University of Lisbon (2019-2022).
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