Maura Lafferty
ADDRESS
Department of Classics
1104 McClung Tower
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone
Maura Lafferty
Associate Professor and Associate Head
Research Interests
- Medieval Latin Language and Literature
- Latin Paleography and Manuscript Culture
Education
- Ph.D. (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, 1993
- M.A. (Classics), University of North Carolina, 1987
- B.A. (Latin), Wellesley College, 1983
Presentations
- “Vergil and the Changing Mise-en-Page from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,” Meeting of the Classical Association of the Mid-West and South, April 11-14, 2018.
- “Garnish, Appetizer, or Main Course: The Paratext in Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum Maius,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, July 3-7, 2017.
- “The Evolution of Patrick from Indoctus rusticus to Saintly Scribe in the Book of Armagh,” Celtic Studies Association of North America, Ohio State University, May 21, 2011.
- “Word Order in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise,” Convegno dell’Internationales Mittelateiner Komitee, Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi litteris, Benevento, November 10-14, 2010.
- “Paratext and the Layout of the Epic: Vergil and Walter of Chatillon’s Alexandreis,” Marco Manuscript Workshop: “Unruly Letters & Unbound Texts”, University of Tennessee, February 5, 2010.
- “Speaking to the Martyrs at the Cult Sites of Rome,” Forty-fifth InternationaMl Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalatmazoo, May 13-16, 2010.
- “The Early Liturgy at the Cult Sites of the Martyrs of Rome,” Conference on the Early Roman Liturgy at Blackfriars College, Oxford University, United Kingdom, November 14, 2009
- Telling Our Students the Truth about Latin Word Order,” Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association, November 8, 2008.
- “Teaching Hyperbaton, or How to Recognize What Hyperbaton is Not,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 18, 2008.
- “Manuscripts as Guides to Better Reading,” Wednesday Lunches, Humanities Initiative, University of Tennessee, February 20, 2008.
Employment
- Associate Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 2008-
- Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 2006-08
- Associate Professor of Latin, Department of Classics, University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, 2006-07 (on leave)
- Assistant Professor of Latin, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000-06
- Arthur J. Ennis Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Villanova University, 1998-2000
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, 1997-98
- Assistant Professor, Duke University/Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, 1996-97
- Instructor, Department of Classics, University of Toronto, 1995
- Instructor (Full-time), McMaster University, 1994-95
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, 1993-94
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 1992-93