Elizabeth Vandiver
Elizabeth Vandiver | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
| Nationality | American |
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Shimer College | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Whitman College |
Elizabeth Vandiver (born 1956) is an American
American Philological Association in 1998.[1] She also won awards for her teaching from Northwestern University and the University of Georgia.[1] In May 2013, she was awarded Whitman College's "G. Thomas Edwards Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship", the highest award that Whitman College gives to a faculty member.[2]
Work
Vandiver did undergraduate work at
The Teaching Company
She has recorded several highly reviewed[5] lecture series for The Teaching Company in the field of classical history and literature which include the following:
- Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition (with other professors)[1]
- Classical Mythology[1][6]
- Odyssey of Homer[1][7]
- Iliad of Homer[1][8]
- Herodotus: The Father of History[1][10]
- Aeneid of Virgil[1][11]
Books
- Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History[3]. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther[12], translated and edited by Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen, and Thomas D. Frazel. Manchester University Press, 2003.
- Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War[13] Peter Lang, 1991.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Elizabeth Vandiver". The Teaching Company. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
Elizabeth Vandiver is associate professor of classics and Clement Biddle Penrose professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics. She completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College and went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.
[permanent dead link] - ^ "Edwards Award". Archived from the original on 2013-06-09. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
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- ^ Marguerite Johnson. "Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War". Reviews in History. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Search results for: 'vandiver'". www.thegreatcourses.com. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Classical Mythology". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Odyssey of Homer". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Iliad of Homer". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Greek Tragedy". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Herodotus: The Father of History". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ "Aeneid of Virgil". English. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
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- OCLC 714569785.
External links
- "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D." (Elizabeth Vandiver bio page at The Great Courses)
- "Expanding the Bounds of Thought" (transcript of Whitman College baccalaureate address)
- Whitman
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