Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Greek and Roman Literature and Culture
Biography
Erik Gunderson focuses on the literature and culture of the Roman era. His work explores the relationship between the self and institutions. He has written two monographs on rhetorical culture. The first explores the rhetoric, performance, and the male self. The second surveys the fictive world of declamation and its bearing on questions of Roman identity. His third book examines Romans as scholars and their relationship to their own cultural legacy. He has also edited the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric. He has written a monograph on Seneca, ethics, and literature as well as a study of Plautus. His articles explore topics such as the Roman arena, biography, epistles, historiography, philology, satire, and tragedy.
His undergraduate study was conducted at the University of Chicago. His masters and doctorate were earned at The University of California at Berkeley. He was formerly an assistant and then associate professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He has been a member of the University of Toronto since July 2007.
Education
Publications
- The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius: The Epigrams, Siluae, and Domitianic Rome (Oxford University Press : 2021)
- The Sublime Seneca: Ethics, Literature, Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press : 2015)
- Laughing Awry: Plautus and Tragicomedy (Oxford University Press : 2015)
- Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Ancient Library (University of Wisconsin Press : 2009)
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press : 2009)
- Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority, and the Rhetorical Self (Cambridge University Press : 2003)
- Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (University of Michigan Press : 2000)
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