Dr.  Kristopher   Fletcher 

Assistant Professor  - Foreign Language and Literature

Bachelor's Degree(s): Wesleyan University, B.A., Graduated with Honors in Classics, College Year at Athens

Master's Degree: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Student Associate Member

PhD: University of Michigan, Ph.D., Classics, Dissertation: Ovid, Mythography and the Translation of Myth. Chair: Jay Reed

Phone: (225) 578-8514

E-mail: kfletc8@lsu.edu

Office: 307 Hodges Hall

Area of Interest

Augustan Poetry, Mythology & Mythography, Greek & Roman Epic, Hellenistic Poetry,
Translation Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Historical Fiction

Awards & Honors

Citation for Dedication to Instruction by a Freshman Student, Alpha Lambda Delta, Freshman Honor Society, Fall 2008

International Travel Grant, LSU, Fall 2008
Manship Summer Research Stipend, LSU, Summer 2008

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003-04

Fulbright Fellowship, Greece, 1998-99

Phi Beta Kappa, Connecticut Gamma Chapter, 1998

Selected Publications

Book Project

  Finding Italy in Vergil’s Aeneid (in progress)

Articles and Notes 

   “Ovidian ‘Correction’ of the Biblical Flood?” Forthcoming in Classical Philology
   “Propertius’ First Metamorphosis Poem? The Mythological Exempla in 3.10.” Forthcoming
in Mnemosyne
   “Systematic Genealogies in Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca and the Exclusion of Rome from
Greek Myth.” Classical Antiquity 27.1 (2008) 59-91
   “Vergil’s Italian Diomedes.” American Journal of Philology 127.2 (2006) 219-59    

Book Chapters

   “Divine Agency and Morality in Hellenistic Metamorphosis Poetry.” Forthcoming in M. A.
Harder, R. F. Regtuit and G. C. Wakkers, edd. Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry
   “Teaching Romans to Write Greek Myth: Parthenius, Gallus and the Erotica Pathemata.”
Forthcoming in A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the History of Western Translation. S.
McElduff and E. Sciarrino, edd.
   “Apollonius and Ovid.” In progress for Cambridge Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes. J.
Murray and C. Schroeder, edd.
   “Towards a Roman Mythography: Hyginus’ Fabulae.” In progress for Writing Greek and
Roman Myth. Mythography in the Ancient World. R. Scott Smith and Stephen Trzaskoma, edd.