William J. Dominik

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William J. Dominik
Dominik at Ibadan in 2010
Born (1953-12-29) 29 December 1953 (age 70)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of the Pacific
Texas Tech University
Monash University
ThesisThe Poet and His Craft: A Critical Study of the Speeches in the Thebais of Statius (1989)
Doctoral advisorAnthony Boyle
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineLatin literature
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
University of Natal
University of Lisbon

William J. Dominik (born (1953-12-29)29 December 1953) is an American-Australian scholar of Classical Studies.[1][2] He is presently Visiting Professor and Integrated Researcher of Classical Studies at the University of Lisbon[3] and Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Otago.[4]

Life

Dominik is the son of university professors of classical music and spent his childhood in a number of states in the USA. After studying Classics at the

University of Durham in 1973-1974 and completing his student teaching at the American School Foundation of Mexico City in 1975, he earned a BA in Classics and English from the University of the Pacific and a California Teaching Credential from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing in 1975. Dominik left the USA in 1976 to live overseas for what has amounted to all but a few years. A resident of Sintra, Portugal as of 2018, Dominik possesses dual Australian and American citizenship. He is married to Brazilian artist[5] and former nutritionist Najla Barroso Dominik, a member of the Academy of Letters and Arts of Salvador
, Brazil.

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. In addition to holding the aforecited posts at the University of Natal and the University of Otago, he has served in recent years as Invited/Visiting Professor, Integrated Researcher, and Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon (2018-2023) and CAPES Visiting Foreign Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (2010, 2016–17). 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 several hundred publications[6] (mainly chapters in edited books and journal articles), 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"[7]) and its positive hermeneutic approach to the literature and rhetoric of the imperial era.

A distinctive feature of Dominik's research and pedagogical output is its collaborative nature, which is evident especially through the publication of various co-edited books and a journal. He was the founding editor and manager of the Classics series Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity (1992-2011).[8] In addition to having served as a referee for over sixscore publishers, journals, and institutions, Dominik has supervised, examined, and moderated over a gross of postgraduate dissertations.

Dominik has delivered over eightscore lectures and papers, including many invited or commemorative presentations such as a

Royal Society of New Zealand National Identity Symposium Presentation (2011),[17][18] an Oxford Philological Society lecture (2013),[19][20] and the Inaugural Seminar at the Federal University of Sergipe Postgraduate Program in History (2016).[21][22]

Dominik has received over a couple of hundred individual research fellowships, grants, and awards (including renewals and sponsored visits), such as a

University of Lisbon
(2019-2022).

Books

References

  1. ^ "William J. Dominik | University of Lisbon - Academia.edu"
  2. ^ "William J. Dominik | Otago C.V."
  3. ^ "William J. Dominik". centroclassicos.letras.ulisboa.pt. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Professor William J. Dominik". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Najla's Art". najlabarroso.wixsite.com/najlasart.
  6. ^ "William J. Dominik | University of Lisbon - Academia.edu"
  7. ^ Cecilia Criado, La teología de la Tebaida Estaciana (Hildesheim 2000), p. 16.
  8. ^ "William J. Dominik | Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity"
  9. ^ "William J. Dominik, 'Programmatising Rome: Past, Present and Future in Silius Italicus' Punica.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus, Punica 1 and 2', in A. J. Boyle and W. J. Dominik (eds), Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text (Leiden/Boston: E. J. Brill 2003) 469–497". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Bringing the Classics and the Humanities into the New Millennium.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Bringing the Classics and the Humanities into the New Millennium.' Inaugural Professorial Lecture 2002, No. 11. Dunedin: University of Otago 2002. Pp. 36. ISSN 1173-8987". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Ensinando e pesquisando o mundo clássico.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Ensinando e pesquisando o mundo clássico', in P. Prata and F. Fortes (eds), O Latim hoje: Reflexões sobre cultura clássica e ensino (Campinas: Mercado de Letras 2015) 69-88". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Classics as a World Discipline.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Classics as a World Discipline' (Third Biennial Constantine Leventis Memorial Lecture), Nigeria and the Classics 26 (2010) 1-25". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, '"High Culture" in New Zealand.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, '"High Culture", Classics and the Humanities in New Zealand Aotearoa: A Position Paper' (Royal Society of New Zealand and University of Otago Centre for Research on National Identity Presentation), Scholia 20 (2011) 135–144". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'The Origins and Development of Roman Rhetoric.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'The Development of Roman Rhetoric', in M. MacDonald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017) 159-172". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  21. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Estratégias narrativas de Tácito.'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  22. ^ Dominik, William J. "William J. Dominik, 'Ênfase Narrativa e a colocação dos eventos históricos nos Anais de Tácito', Estudos Linguísticos e Literários 52 (2016) 166-182". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. ^ "Register of Former Fellows: List | IASH". www.iash.ed.ac.uk.

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