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Christopher Craig

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ADDRESS
Department of Classics 1109 McClung Tower The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone
(865) 974-2723

Christopher Craig

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests

Classical Rhetoric and Oratory; Cicero; Roman Prose

Education

  • Ph.D. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979.
  • A.B. in Classics, Oberlin College, 1974.

Honors

selected Honors

  • UT National Alumni Association’s Outstanding Teacher Award, l986.
  • President, Tennessee Classical Association, 1986-88.
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University Studies Award for Fostering Interdisciplinary Scholarship, 1994.
  • President, East Tennessee Society, Archaeological Institute of America, 1993-94.
  • President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Southern Section, 1994-96.
  • Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association’s Elliott Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Education, 1997.
  • First recipient of the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Science’s Cunningham Outstanding Teacher Award, 1999.
  • University of Tennessee Citation for Excellence in Advising, 2000.
  • President, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2001-02.
  • Lindsay Young Professor of the Humanities, 2002-2008.
  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South “Ovatio” for service to the discipline and profession, 2003.
  • University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Award for Academic Outreach (service to the larger community), 2004.
  • President, Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association, 2010.
  • University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Service, 2011.
  • University of Tennessee L.R. Hesler Award for Teaching and Service, 2017.

Presentations

Selected Invited Lectures

  • “The Rewards of Cynicism in Ciceronian Oratory,” University of Chicago, April, 1993.
  • “The Ethics of Ciceronian Persuasion,” Classical Association of Virginia, Charlottesville, September, 1996.
  • “Cicero the Lawyer:  Where the Truth Lies,” presidential address, Classical Association of the Middle West and South Southern Section, Savannah, October, 1996.
  • “Cicero’s Speech for Sestius:  Rational Argument and Ethical Judgment,” plenary lecture at the invitation of the president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, San Diego, November, 1996.
  • “The Dangerous Method of Cicero’s Speeches,” the twelfth annual J. Reuben Clark Memorial Lecture in Classics and the Classical Tradition, Brigham Young University, March, 1997.
  • “Cicero’s Speeches:  Lawyer’s Tricks and Readers’ Ethics,” Texas A&M University and the University of Alabama, March, 1999.
  • “Judging the Judges of Cicero’sSpeech for Murena,” Northwestern University, February, 2000.
  • “Of Catiline and CAMWS,” presidential address, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT, April, 2001.
  • “Audience Expectations, Invective and Proof in Ciceronian Oratory.”  Indiana University and the University of Texas at Austin, October, 2003.
  • “Honesty and Politics in Cicero’s Rome,” the Hummel Memorial Lecture, Virginia Tech, October, 2005.
  • “Indignatio in Cicero’s Defense Speeches,” at the conference “Form and Function in Roman Oratory” hosted by the University of Edinburgh, sponsored by the British Academy, March 2007.
  • “The Courtroom Speech as Literary Genre: the reader’s experience of rhetoric in Cicero’s Pro Roscio Amerino,” at the conference “Rhetoric and the Literary Genres in Antiquity” hosted by the University of Athens, May, 2008.
  • “The Theory and Practice of Outrage in Cicero’s Defense Speeches.” The Arthur Stocker Lecture in Classics, University of Virginia, February, 2009.
  • “The Power of Monday.” Keynote address, Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association annual meeting, November, 2012.
  • “Anger and Audience in Cicero’s Speeches,” The Hunter Lecture in Classics, Florida State University, April, 2013.
  • “Philosophy at the Bar,” annual spring Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of Tennessee. Knoxville, April, 2013.
  • “”O Immortal Gods!’ The Rhetoric of Anger in Cicero’s Speeches,” the J. Ward Jones Lecture in Classics, College of William and Mary, April, 2018.

Teaching

  • Latin language and literature at all undergraduate and graduate levels.
  • Greek language and literature at introductory and intermediate undergraduate levels.
  • Greek and Roman literature in translation
  • Classical Civilization
  • Classical Mythology.
  • Courses on Roman archaeology, art, and architecture in relation to Latin literature taught on site in Rome and around the Bay of Naples.

Employment

  • University of Tennessee Department of Classics, 1980-present, Assistant Professor (1980), Associate Professor (1986), Professor (2002). Department Head, 2011-2016.
  • University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences, Director of the College Scholars Program, 2004-2011.
  • UCLA Department of Classical Studies, Lecturer, 1979-80.

Organizations

  • Society for Classical Studies
  • Archaeological Institute of America
  • Classical Association of the Middle West and South
  • Classical Association of the Atlantic States
  • American Classical League
  • Vergilian Society of America
  • American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
  • Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association
  • Tennessee Classical Association
  • International Society for the History of Rhetoric
  • American Society for the History of Rhetoric