Mosaic with Theatrical Masks from Tivoli, I CE (Capitoline Museum) Nilotic "Palestrina" Mosaic (detail with Nubian hunters) I BCE, Praeneste, Italy

John H. Starks, Jr. Associate Professor of Classical Studies & President, Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) Chair, Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies Chair, Faculty Senate Executive Committee Faculty Director of University-Wide Courses Curriculum Vitae Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York POBox 6000, Binghamton NY 13902 Office: Library Tower 508 (607)777-4524 jstarks@binghamton.edu 2017-18 Course Syllabi Latin 380C – The ‘Other’ in Latin Comedy Classics 383B/AfricanaStudies 383C/Anthropology 380P/History 383B/Judaic Studies 384E: Race & Ethnicity in Ancient North Africa (Not currently readable in all browsers – use Firefox for best results) 2016-17 Course Syllabi Latin 381G: Latin Historians on Celtic and “Germanic” Ethnicity Classics 381F/Theatre 389G/WGSS 383D: Women in Ancient Theater Other Course Syllabi Classics 212/English 200F/History 287A: Greek & Roman Biography Classics 305/Theatre 389S – Ancient Comedy in Performance Classics 315/English 300C: Satire from Rome to Colbert Harpur Freshman Seminar (HARP) 101N – Cleopatra, the Last Pharaoh Latin 381O: Cicero and the Republic Falter Latin 382A – “Africans” in History and Epic Latin 380M – Passion(s) in Ovid Latin 102 – Elementary Latin Latin 203 – Intermediate Latin Greek 203 – Intermediate Greek Greek 380B – Greek Historians on Persian Barbarity & Medizing Complete Teaching Portfolio of Syllabi Comedies directed/adapted with my original lyrics at Binghamton University as part of Classics 305 “Ancient Comedy in Performance” 2012 - video of The Ghoul Next Door: A Musical Roman Comedy (Plautus’ Mostellaria) complete script of The Ghoul Next Door – translation and lyrics by John H. Starks, Jr., score composed by Santino DeAngelo 2009 – video of Femme Phantasmagoria (Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai) complete script of Femme Phantasmagoria Comedy Video Portfolio (Plautus, Aristophanes, Gilbert & Sullivan Thespis 2006 APA – shows directed/adapted prior to Binghamton University)

Special fields of interest:
* Greek and Roman Comedy, performance and theater history, gender - director of: The Ghoul Next Door, A Musical Roman Comedy (Plautus’ Mostellaria) and Comedy Scholars’ Colloquium, original translator and librettist with original music by Santino DeAngelo; Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousai ('Femme Phantasmagoria,’ original lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old (2006 APA); Ekklesiazousai ('Women Rule,’ original lyrics), Lysistrata, original lyrics, Wasps, original lyrics; Plautus' Poenulus, Curculio and scenes from Plautus, Menander and Terence

* Non-western Ethnicity in the Classical World, especially Africa and the Levant
* Latin Historiography (including Greek historians of Rome) and Classical Biography

* Greek and Latin Epigraphy

* Roman Satire