Donna Shalev
Publication List, Updated June 2019
1. D.Phil. Thesis:
[1] D. Goldberg, Studies in the Language of Menander (vii + 304 pages + appendices; unpublished).
Topics: Part I: The Perfect. Part II: Hyperbaton.
Supervisor: Peter G. McC. Brown (Trinity College, University of Oxford)
Submitted: 30.9.96. Approved: 19.6.97.
Unpublished.
2. Books
3. Books Edited
[2] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (eds.), (2002). Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling, Virginia. 410pp incl. index.
[3] M. Ben-Sasson - R. Brody - A. Lieblich - D. Shalev (eds.), (2010) Canonization and Genizah. Magnes: Jerusalem (Hebrew). 500 pp.
[*] Scripta Classica Israelica volumes for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
4. Chapters and Articles in Collections
[4] D. Shalev (1998) “Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue Exchange?” in: B. García-Hernández (ed.), Estudios de lingüística latina, Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 765-779. (Peer reviewed.)
[5] D. Shalev (2001). “A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal Expressions in Latin” in: Cl. Moussy (ed.), De lingua latina novae quaestiones, Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling Virginia, 583-596. (Peer reviewed.)
[6] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (2002) “Perfects and Exclamatives” in: L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (eds.), Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling, Virginia, 299-306.
[7] D. Shalev (2003) “Yes (and No) in Ancient Literary Greek” in: M. Bondi – S. Stati (eds.), Dialogue Analysis 2000, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 351-360 (Peer reviewed).
[8] D. Shalev (2005) “Economy of Information in Ancient Greek Comic Dialogue” in: A. Betten et al. (eds.), Dialogue Analysis IX. Dialogue in Literature and the Media. Selected Papers, 39-50 (Peer reviewed).
[9] D. Shalev (2010) “First Inventor as Canonical Founding Figure in Greek Culture: Protagoras, Controversy, and Rivalry of Protoi Heuretai” in: M. Ben-Sasson et al. (eds.), Genizah and Canonization, 351-383. [Hebrew] (some interface with #20, with more emphasis on a wider range of sources in Arabic awa'il literature, and addition of discussion on Walter Burleigh, Nietzsche, and priority conflict in invention narratives).
[10] D. Shalev (2011) “Theory of Discourse in Ancient Sources” in: M. Blondheim, M. Hamo, T. Liebes (eds.), Discourse/s: Media, Message, Meaning (Besod Siach: Media, Maba'im, Mashma'ut), 102-117. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
[11] D. Shalev (2011) “Plato in Arabic: Features of Language and Format in the Medieval Arabic Translations of Dialogue Passages from the Republic” in: Y. Maschler et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th and 26th Annual Meetings (2009-2010), v. XVIII, On the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Passing Away of Haiim B. Rosén, Founder of the Israeli Linguistic Society, 116-131. [Hebrew].
[12] D. Shalev (2012) “Smitten with love-mania: Popular Romantic Literary Tradition and Other Literary Traditions in a Hermetic Visionary Recital” in: M. Niehoff, M. Meroz, J. Garb (eds.), Festschrift in Honour of Yehuda Liebes, 101-119. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
After last appointment
[13] D. Shalev (2017) “Attenuated, Modified, Assent-Seeking Declaratives, Interrogation and Urbanitas in the Greek of Platonic Dialogue” in Logozzo, Felicia & Paolo Poccetti (eds.) Ancient Greek Linguistics: New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives, Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 441-457.
[14] D. Shalev (2017) “Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio Obliqua in Literary Classic Greek, with Special Reference to Drama and Plato”. In Poccetti, Paolo (ed.), Oratio Obliqua. Strategies of Reported Speech in Ancient Languages, Pisa – Roma: Serra, 129-152.
[15] D. Shalev (To Appear) “How to do persuasive things with (ipsissima) verba: direct speech examples in the chapter on ἐρώτησις in Aristotle Rhetoric and its medieval Arabic translation” 37 pp. (Peer reviewed)
[16] D. Shalev (2018) “Eutocius of Ashkelon, Eratosthenes’ Epistle to King Ptolemy”. In Gera, Deborah, Daniela Dweck & Nurit Shoval Dudai (eds.) The Words of Japeth, an Anthology of Writings by Greek Intellectuals in Ancient Palestine, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 81-88. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
[17] D. Shalev (Forthcoming) ‘Unreportable Tokens, Speech Representation and Conventions of Textual Composition’. In R. Zelnick-Abramovitch, J. Price (eds.), Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama: Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg. Routledge, 21pp.
5. Articles in Refereed Journals:
[18] D. Shalev (1998), Review of E. Dickey, Greek Forms of Address From Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford: 1996). Scripta Classica Israelica, xvii, 235-238.
[19] D. Shalev (2001) “Illocutionary Clauses Accompanying Questions in Greek Drama and in Platonic Dialogue”. Mnemosyne, n.s. 4, vol. liv/5, 531-561.
[20] D. Shalev (2001), Review of S. Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes. The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature (Oxford: 1999). Scripta Classica Israelica, xx, 275-282.
[21] D. Shalev (2002) “Exclamatory Sentences, Intonation, and the Verbs -clama- vs. Neutral verba dicendi”. Papers on Grammar, VIII, 229-260.
[22] D. Shalev (2005) “Action Nouns in Reports of Speech”. Papers on Grammar, IX, 1-14.
[23] D. Shalev (2006) “Heliodorus' Speakers: Multiculturalism and Literary Innovation in Conventions for Framing Speech”. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 49, 175-201.
[24] D. Shalev (2006) “The Role of εὑρἠματα in the Lives of Diogenes Laertius, and Related Literature”. Hermes, 134/3, 309-337. (some interface with #9, but in English, with 5 page conspectus of invention passages, and elaboration of philological and literary argument, biographical and sympotic literature).
[25] D. Shalev (2008) “Speech Act Theory, and Ancient Sources for the Division of λὀγος”. Papers on Grammar, X, 243-275.
[26] D. Shalev (2011) “Mimēsis, Dihēgēsis, Style: Socrates’ Paraphrase in Plato Republic 393d8-394a6 of Homer Iliad 1.11-42”. Papers on Grammar, XI, 233-272.
[27] D. Shalev (2012) “Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: From Euripides' Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts”. Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxi, 161-183.
[28] D. Shalev (2013) “Prorsus as a Response Formula in Ficino’s Latin: Plato, Gorgias 513d6-514d2”. Journal of Latin Linguistics, 12 (1), 123-136.
[29] D. Shalev (2013) Review of Leonardo Tarán and Dimitri Gutas Aristotle Poetics Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries (Leiden: 2012) Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxii, 265-272.
[30] D. Shalev (2014) “Muḍṭariban maǧnūnan: A Case of Phraseology and Evolving Motifs of Literary and Medical Love-Sickness in the Tale of Salāmān and Absāl”. Arabica 61, issues 3-4, 219-251. (Some common ground with #12, but in English; extensive elaborations and additions, including Platonic materials and medieval Arab medical sources).
[31] D. Shalev (Accepted) “Linguistic Features in Medieval (and Other) Arabic Translations of Plato: Dialogue Technique and Abstraction”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 52 pp. (English expansion and reworking of #11 for abstraction; section on dialogue technique mainly new).
[32] D. Shalev (2015) “Socrates Playing with Meletus: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterlife of a Chreia”. Journal of Latin Linguistics 14/1. 127-153.
[33] D. Shalev (2015) “Collected Papers on Greek into Latin in the Context of Translation Movements in Antiquity”. Scripta Classica Israelica 34. 227-245.
After last appointment
[34] H. Rosén & D. Shalev (2017) “Quasi: Its Grecizing (?) syntactic patterns”. Pallas 103. 273-282.
Submitted or in preparation
[35] D. Shalev (submitted) “Not Yes and Not No: μέση ἀπόκρισις and Other Forms of ‘Indirect Response’ in Ancient Greek Literary, Theoretical and Exegetical Sources.” 34 pp.
[36] D. Shalev (in preparation) “The particle δή and levels of commitment in Ancient Greek, with special reference to Exegetical uses in the Scholia and in Galen’s Greek and Medieval Arabic Versions.” 15pp.
[37] D. Shalev (in preparation) “Expressions of Attenuation and Sentence Type in Plato Latinus: που et alia in the Translations of the Phaedo by Aristippus, Bruni and Ficino” 22pp.
[38] D. Shalev (in preparation) “Once Upon A Case History: Opening Gambits and Other Structural Elements in Galen, with special reference to the narrative style in the Greek of De locis affectis 5.8” 29 pp.
6. Participation in Scientific Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity:
[1] May 1992, Jerusalem: ‘Euphemism in Menander’ [in Hebrew], (Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference). (lecture)
[2] February, 1997, Yale University: ‘The Perfect in Narrative’. Classics Seminar lecture
[3] April, 1997, Madrid: ‘Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue Exchange?’ (9th International Conference of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[4] May, 1998, Tel Aviv: ‘Verse-Break in Attic Drama and the Term Antilabe’ [in Hebrew], (Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference). (lecture)
[5] April, 1999, Paris: ‘A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal Expressions in Latin’, (10th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[6] May, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘Heliodorus’ Speakers’, [Hebrew] Hebrew University Classics Seminar (year on Ethnography) (lecture)
[7] June, 2000, Bologna: ‘Yes and No in Classical Greek Literary Dialogue Texts’, (Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis). (lecture)
[8] July, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘On Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of Theomnestus’ Hippiatrica’ (From Jahiliyya to Islam: International Colloquium). (response)
[9] June, 2001, Bar Ilan ‘Cultural Norms and Codes for Conversation in Classical Greek Sources’ [in Hebrew] (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel) (lecture).
[10] June, 2001, Amsterdam, ‘Verbs as Cues for Exclamatory Sentences: Exclamo et al., Inquam et al.’, (11th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[11] June, 2001, Amsterdam. ‘Textual Conventions, Discourse Stages, and Grammatical Form: Directives in Prescriptive Passages’ (contribution to Workshop on Discourse Cohesion in Latin).
[12] June, 2001, Amsterdam prepared response to another contribution (Ego sum Amphitruo: Der Satztyp “Selbstidentifikation”) in the Workshop on Discourse Cohesion in Latin.
[13] September, 2001, Yale. English version of [9] at Interdepartmental Seminar (lecture).
[14] January, 2002, Philadelphia. ‘Traditional Grammars and the Syntax of Literary Dialogue Texts’ (Meeting of the American Philological Association) (lecture, invited to panel on new approaches to Greek Grammar ‘Life After Smyth’).
[15] May, 2002, Jerusalem. ‘Survival of Greek Literary Texts’ (Scholion Forum on Genizah and Canon) (lecture, and mediated discussion).
[16] June, 2002, Jerusalem ‘Plato adapts Homer: from Mimetic to Diegetic Narrative’ [Hebrew]. Hebrew University Classics Dept. seminar (year on Sources and Adaptations) (lecture).
[17] March, 2003, London. Expanded version of [13] (= [9], but in English) with literary as well as theoretical sources (Institute of Classical Studies Greek Literature Seminar) (lecture).
[18] April, 2003, Salzburg. ‘Indirectness in Ancient Greek Comedy’ (Conference of the International Association of Dialogue Analysis) (lecture).
[19] April, 2003, Salzburg. Chair and respondent of session on discourse markers in dialogue in Latin (Conference of the International Association of Dialogue Analysis).
[20] June, 2003, Bologna. ‘The Verbal Noun in Reports of Speech’ (12th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[21] June, 2004, Jerusalem, ‘New Under the Sun? Discourse Theory in Antiquity’ [Hebrew] (Discourse and Discourses: Media, Message, Meaning. International Conference in Honour of Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka) (invited lecture).
[22] June 2004, Jerusalem, ‘Solomonic Images in the Literary-Cultural Tradition in Antiquity’ [Hebrew] (A Temple of Stone and Shrines of Words: King Solomon and his Cultural Image: An Academic Cabaret) (joint lecture with Dr.
Oded Ir-Shai).
[23] Jan. 2005, Jerusalem, ‘Language and Translation as Factors and Symptoms of Canonization, Selection, Nachleben: Reception, Survival, and Popularity’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture).
[24] March 2005, Jerusalem, (with Prof. Amiah Lieblich) ‘What is Classical?’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture and mediated discussion).
[25] June 2005, Jerusalem, ‘πρῶτος εὑρετής: First Inventor as Founding Figure among the Greeks: The Cases of Protagoras and Pythagoras in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Culminating Conference, Scholion Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies (lecture) (some overlap with talk [26] but exclusively on Greek sources, and on priority conflict in the formats of invention narratives).
[26] May 2006, Jerusalem, ‘Integration of Invention Passages in Diogenes Laertius' Composition Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, and in Germane Texts in the Arabic Tradition’ [Hebrew]. Classics Department Seminar (lecture) (some overlap of topic with talk [25], but presenting Arabic sources, and Walter Burleigh).
[27] May 2007, Jerusalem, ‘The Arabic Translation of Plato's Story of Gyges and the Ring’ [Hebrew]. (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel (lecture).
[28] June 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Katabasis in Plato and Its Later Manifestations in Medieval Arabic Sources’ [Hebrew]. (Annual Conference on Ancient Cultures and Literatures 'Katabasis', Humanities Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
[29] July 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Didactic Setting in Socratic Dialogue, Formal Transition, and Reference to Format in Arabic Accounts of Plato's Oeuvre’ (Paideia and Scripture Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[30] October 2008, Tel Aviv, ‘ 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: The Expression 'nai' in Attic Comedy and its Place in the Language System and in Theory’ (Conference to Honour Netta Zagagi, Tel Aviv University) (talk [36] below is an English version with elaborations).
[31] February 2009, Jerusalem ‘On the Text of Aristotle's Poetics and its Fate in the Arab Middle Ages: General Background and a Close Reading of Chapter 19’ (Group on Ibn Rushd's Commentary of Aristotle Poetics, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem).
[32] May 2009, Jerusalem ‘Eros and Illness in Greek Romantic and Medical Texts and Its Transmission into Arabic in the Middle Ages’ (Mishkenot Sha’ananim conference on Greek Culture).
[33] February 2010, Haifa ‘Phenomena in the Language of Plato in Arabic Translation’ (Haiim Rosén Decade Memorial Session, Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Linguistics, Haifa University).
[34] October 2010, Jerusalem ‘Locus Amoenus and Relations in the Family’ (Departmental Seminar, Classics).
[35] December 2010, Jerusalem ‘Verbal Hybris, Professional Ego, (? and ἠθοποιία) in Greek Sources: The Case of the Doctor-Philosopher Galen’ (Annual Meeting on Ancient Literatures, 'Hybris').
[36] January 2011, Helsinki ‘Saying 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: the Expression 'ναί' in Attic Comedy, and its Place in Theory’ (Guest Lecture at the Classics Seminar) (Expanded, English, version of talk [30]).
[37] March 2011, Jerusalem: ‘Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: from Euripides' Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts – And Back’ ('Greeks and the Irrational' a Conference in Memory of Martin Ostwald).
[38] June 2011, Atlanta: ‘Platon écrivain: the Notion and Term ποικιλία and Its Nachleben in Arabic Doxographical Sources’ (Annual Conference of the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies).
[39] March 2012, Jerusalem: ‘Greek in Latin, Greek into Latin: ναί, res, and More’ (Dept. Seminar, Classics).
[40] November 2012, Tsfat: ‘Galen's de optimo medico cognoscendo, the Literary Motif of Medical Questioning in Greek and Arabic’ (Galen in Arabic and Hebrew, International Conference at Bar Ilan Medical School).
[41] January 2013, Tel Aviv: ‘Dialogue Passages from Plato in the Medieval Arabic Tradition: Dialogue and Translation Technique’ (Dept. Seminar, Tel Aviv University Classics). (Hebrew original on which talk [44], in English, elaborates).
[42] May 2013, Rome: ‘Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio Obliqua in Greek: Plato and Germane Sources’ (Panel Talk, International Conference of Latin Linguistics).
[43] December 2013, Jerusalem: ‘The Mise-en-Scène of Diagnosis in Arabic Medical Sources, adab, and Romantic belles-lettres, With Special Reference to Ibn Sina and Others Drawing on Greek Sources’ (Lecture at Reunion Conference for ‘Jewish Physicians’ research group, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[44] January 2014, Sevilla: ‘Platonic Dialogue and its Translation into Medieval Arabic’ (Guest Lecture, Aula Luis Cernuda, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Sevilla) (English version of talk [41], with additional discussion of Spanish and Modern Arabic translations).
[45] September 2014, London: ‘How To Do (Persuasive) Things with ipsissima verba: The Greek Text of Aristotle Rhetoric III ch.18, and Its Arabic Nachleben’ (Lecture at the Conference 'Language of Persuasion: Linguistic Approaches to Its Theory and Practice in the Classical World' at UCL).
[46] March 2015, Rome: ‘Urbanitas, Attenuated Declaratives and Interrogation in Ancient Greek Dialogue’ (lecture, Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics).
[47] June 2015, Toulouse: ‘Quasi and other complementizers of non-direct discourse in different phases of Latin’ (lecture, with Hannah Rosén, at the International Colloquium of Latin Linguistics).
[48] June 2015, Ra‘anana: ‘Socrates Playing with Meletos: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterbirth of a Chreia’ (lecture, at the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, and chairing of session in memory of Prof. S. Scolnicov)
After last appointment
[49] October 2015, Verona: ‘Between Mimesis and Diegesis: Unreportable Utterances’ (invited lecture at conference on Diegesis and Mimesis in Fiction and Drama, University of Verona).
[50] November 2015, Berlin: ‘Germane Bauformen in the Greek Sympotic Tradition and in Arabic Adab Sources: Format, Textual Parameters, and Cultural Transfer’ (invited lecture at conference ‘Narratives on Translation’, Max Planck Institute).
[51] March 2016, Jerusalem: ‘Transfer of Motifs from Greek to Arabic Sources: Symposium to Munāẓara as a Case Study’ (guest lecture at the School for Sciences and Arts).
[52] February 2017, London ‘Platonic Dialogue and Plato’s Dialogues in Medieval Arabic Translations’, Guest lecture, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
[53] May 2017, Bochum “Whose Katabasis, Gyges, Georgios or Jirjīs? Variations on the Theme of Descent’ (Self-Reflective Traditions at CERES Bochum).
[54] June 2017, Tel Aviv ‘ “Unreportable” Elements in διήγησις ἁπλῆ, Paraphrase and Exegesis’. (invited lecture at conference ‘Language and Text’ to honor the retirement of Margalit Finkelberg).
[55] November 2017, Tel Aviv “Katabasis Variations on the Theme of Descent in Plato, Christian Hagiography, and Arabic Adab,” (Classics Department Departmental Seminar).
[56] November, 2017, Jerusalem ‘Breaking News: New Discoveries of Texts by Ancient Greek Authors’ Talk for annual visit of IASA humanities stream high school students hosted by the classics department.
[57] February, 2018, Jerusalem ‘Case Histories of Women’s Complaints and other Diseases in Galen and other pre-Modern Texts’ talk delivered to the OB-GYN staff at Hadassah Mount Scopus.
[58] May 2018, New Haven, ‘A Format of hypophora, Plato’s Crito and Germane Passages’ Invited Lecture at A Colloquium to Celebrate Victor Bers’s Career at Yale Department of Classics, Yale University.
[59] January 2019, Jerusalem, ‘The particle δή and levels of commitment in Ancient Greek’
[60] May 2019, Tel Aviv, ‘Once Upon A Case History’ at the ISPCS.
Invited
[61] May 2020, Haifa ‘Classical Philology in the Shtetl and the Metropolis: Plato, Homer and other Classical Texts in Yiddish Translations and their Contextualizations’.
Curriculum Vitae
Donna Shalev
Updated: 10.2018
1. Personal Details
Date of Birth: 15.4.64 Country of Birth: U.S.
Immigration: 1987 Nationality: Israel and U.S.
Marital Status: Married Children: 2
I.D. number: 01174287/1
Permanent Address: 7, Ibn Ezra St., Jerusalem 92424
Telephone: 02-5639134 (h) 02-5883916 (w)
Fax: 02-5639134 (h) 02-5881245 attn D. Shalev (w)
Email: donna@mail.huji.ac.il
2. Higher Education
1982/3 Princeton University General Freshman Year
10.1983-1.1988 Hebrew University Classics,
Arabic Language and Literature B.A.
10.1989-9.1996 Oxford University Classics D. Phil.*
(St. John's College) (supervisor: P.G. McC. Brown)
3. Appointments at the Hebrew University
15.2-15.6.1992 Assistant Instructor Classics
10/92-9/97 Instructor Classics
10/98-9/00 Dr.-Instructor Classics
10/00-2/08 Lecturer Classics
3/08-8/15 Senior Lecturer Classics
8/15 - Associate Professor Classics
4. Additional Functions at the Hebrew University
- 2006 - 2011: Invited to join the Academic Committee, Scholion Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies
- 2008 (Fall): Classics Representative of the Acquisitions and Development Committee at the Humanities/Social Sciences University Library, Mount Scopus Campus
- 2009 (Fall) – 2018 (Summer): Committee Member, Promotions and Tenure of Adjunct Academic Staff.
- 2012-3: Co-organizer, Classics Departmental Seminar.
After last appointment
- 2016/7-present: Chair, Classics Department.
- 2018-: Bloomfield Library Committee.
5. Service in other Academic and Research Institutions
1. 2002/3: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies (part of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London).
2. 2009/10: Participant, Van Leer Institute Research Group on Ibn Rushd and the Nachleben of Aristotle's Poetics.
3. 2012 Spring: Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Group on Jewish Physicians in Medieval Christian Europe: Professional Knowledge as a Cultural Change.
6. Other Activity
1. 1989: Prize in memory of Sarah Dworetzky for excellence in Classical Studies.
2. 1999/2000: Reader for Scripta Classica Israelica, the periodical of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.
3. 2000/01: Golda Meir Award for Excellence of New Lecturers
4. 6/2004: Co-organizer of Workshop: Transfer of Culture: Translation, Revision, Interpretation
5. 6/2005: Co-organizer of conference culminating Canon and Genizah, Scholion, Jerusalem.
6. 2006: Member of ISF grant reading committee
7. 2008-2012: Editorial Board of Papers on Grammar
8. 2008-12: Editorial Board of Scripta Classica Israelica
9. 2010; 2016-: Elected representative of Hebrew University of the Organizing Committee for the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel.
10. 2012-: Editorial Board of Journal of Latin Linguistics
11. 2012: Referee for book submission, American Philosophical Society Monographs.
12. 12/2013: Co-organizer of conference on Archimedes, Jerusalem.
13. 2015: Organizer, Session in Memory of S. Scolnikov, ISPCS conference
14. 2015-: Advisory Board of Skene, periodical for dramatic studies
after last appointment
15. 9.2016-present: co-organizer of reading group for Galenic texts in Greek and Arabic (and other) translations in the pre-Modern traditions.
16. 6-7.6.2018: Co-organizer (with Lisa Maurice and David Schaps), International Conference of the ISPCS hosted by the Classics Department at the Hebrew University.
17. 22.1.2019: Co-organizer (with Linguistics Dept., Prof. Szyldkrot Ben Zeev, and the Academic Committee of the Society), Annual Conference of the H.B. Rosén Israel Linguistics Society.
18. June 2019: Hosted Erasmus Exchange Visitor Professor Simone Beta from Università di Siena.
7. Membership in Professional Associations
1. Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel
2. International Association for Dialogue Analysis
3. American Philological Association
8. Research Grants
1. 1990: AVI fellowship 2000 Pounds Sterling
2. 1997/8: Lady Davis postdoctoral research fellowship 57,600 NIS
Publications: 5, 7, 11, 12
3. 9.2001: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Dialogue Technique in Ancient Greek Literary Texts) 21K USD/ year
Publications: 8, 9, 14, 15, 16
4. 9.2005: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Arabic Translation from Greek Attributed to Ḥunain b. Isḥāq) 20K USD/ year
Publications: 10, 12, 19, 23
5. 9.2008: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Survival of Plato in Arabic, and the Form of the Text) 63K NIS/year
Publications: 11, 22, 24
6. 9.2014: 3-year grant from ISF, with H. Rosén
(Non-direct discourse in Greek, Latin and other languages) 115K NIS/year
after last appointment
- 9.2017: 3-year grant from ISF
(Studies in the Language and Form of Galen’s Case Histories and their Arabic Translations) 150k NIS/year
9. Teaching Duties at the Hebrew University
The courses I have taught and continue to teach are:
B.A.
Beginners Greek, Greek 4-hours; Latin 4-hours; Advanced Greek; Advanced Latin.
Introduction to Classical Culture: Greece.
Homer Iliad; Sophocles Electra; Euripides Hippolytos; Euripides Alcestis; Euripides Hercules Furens; Aristophanes Clouds; Menander Samia; Menander Dyskolos; Terence Eunuchus; Attic Orators; the Greek Novel; Xenophon and Herodotus; Greek Lyric Poetry; The Classical Textual Tradition; Ovid, Metamorphoses; The Greek Novel; Latin Epistolary Works: Pliny and Cicero.
B.A. /M.A.
Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence;
Greek Narrative Texts: Homer, Euripides, Lysias;
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue;
Linguistic Thought in Greek Sources;
Greek Works of the Imperial Period: Galen, Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus; Homer and Herodotus: Investigations in Kunstsprache and Dialect;
Cicero via Plato: Latin Metaphysical Texts and their Artistry;
Euripides' Bacchae and the Birth of Tragedy;
Patterns and Format of Narrative in Greek Literature: Homer to Galen;
Greek into Arabic: Aristotle Poetics, Plato Republic, Galen ‘that the best physician is also a
philosopher’ selected readings and background of the translation movements;
Aristophanic Comedy and Cultural Critique: the Clouds and Wasps;
Terentius, Greek Sources and Ancient Commentators;
Fiction in Classical Sources and the Ancient Greek Novel: Motifs and Literary Conventions
Plato’s Artistry
Theophrastus’ Characters
Ancient Roman Novel
Comedy and Paratragedy
Katabasis in Classical and Late Antique Greek Texts
9a. Supervision
2013, from fall semester - 2014 spring semester: MA student, Nadav Asraf
2014, from fall semester – 2017 fall semester: MA student, Yona Gonopolsky
2018, from spring semester: Ph.D. student, Yona Gonopolsky
2018/9, from fall semester: Ph.D. student, Michael Kopf
2019/2020 academic year: Postdoctoral Lady Davis Fellow Dylan James
קורות חיים
פרסומים
פרויקטים עתידיים ולשעבר (מלגות וקרנות מחקר)
לינק לאתר של החוג
אקדמיה. אדו
קבוצת קריאה של גלנוס
Donna Shalev
Publication List, Updated June 2019
1. D.Phil. Thesis:
[1] D. Goldberg, Studies in the Language of Menander (vii + 304 pages + appendices; unpublished).
Topics: Part I: The Perfect. Part II: Hyperbaton.
Supervisor: Peter G. McC. Brown (Trinity College, University of Oxford)
Submitted: 30.9.96. Approved: 19.6.97.
Unpublished.
2. Books
3. Books Edited
[2] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (eds.), (2002). Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling, Virginia. 410pp incl. index.
[3] M. Ben-Sasson - R. Brody - A. Lieblich - D. Shalev (eds.), (2010) Canonization and Genizah. Magnes: Jerusalem (Hebrew). 500 pp.
[*] Scripta Classica Israelica volumes for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
4. Chapters and Articles in Collections
[4] D. Shalev (1998) “Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue Exchange?” in: B. García-Hernández (ed.), Estudios de lingüística latina, Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 765-779. (Peer reviewed.)
[5] D. Shalev (2001). “A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal Expressions in Latin” in: Cl. Moussy (ed.), De lingua latina novae quaestiones, Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling Virginia, 583-596. (Peer reviewed.)
[6] L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (2002) “Perfects and Exclamatives” in: L. Sawicki – D. Shalev (eds.), Donum Grammaticum. Studies in Latin and Celtic Linguistics in Honour of Hannah Rosén. Peeters: Louvain - Paris - Sterling, Virginia, 299-306.
[7] D. Shalev (2003) “Yes (and No) in Ancient Literary Greek” in: M. Bondi – S. Stati (eds.), Dialogue Analysis 2000, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 351-360 (Peer reviewed).
[8] D. Shalev (2005) “Economy of Information in Ancient Greek Comic Dialogue” in: A. Betten et al. (eds.), Dialogue Analysis IX. Dialogue in Literature and the Media. Selected Papers, 39-50 (Peer reviewed).
[9] D. Shalev (2010) “First Inventor as Canonical Founding Figure in Greek Culture: Protagoras, Controversy, and Rivalry of Protoi Heuretai” in: M. Ben-Sasson et al. (eds.), Genizah and Canonization, 351-383. [Hebrew] (some interface with #20, with more emphasis on a wider range of sources in Arabic awa'il literature, and addition of discussion on Walter Burleigh, Nietzsche, and priority conflict in invention narratives).
[10] D. Shalev (2011) “Theory of Discourse in Ancient Sources” in: M. Blondheim, M. Hamo, T. Liebes (eds.), Discourse/s: Media, Message, Meaning (Besod Siach: Media, Maba'im, Mashma'ut), 102-117. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
[11] D. Shalev (2011) “Plato in Arabic: Features of Language and Format in the Medieval Arabic Translations of Dialogue Passages from the Republic” in: Y. Maschler et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th and 26th Annual Meetings (2009-2010), v. XVIII, On the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Passing Away of Haiim B. Rosén, Founder of the Israeli Linguistic Society, 116-131. [Hebrew].
[12] D. Shalev (2012) “Smitten with love-mania: Popular Romantic Literary Tradition and Other Literary Traditions in a Hermetic Visionary Recital” in: M. Niehoff, M. Meroz, J. Garb (eds.), Festschrift in Honour of Yehuda Liebes, 101-119. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
After last appointment
[13] D. Shalev (2017) “Attenuated, Modified, Assent-Seeking Declaratives, Interrogation and Urbanitas in the Greek of Platonic Dialogue” in Logozzo, Felicia & Paolo Poccetti (eds.) Ancient Greek Linguistics: New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives, Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 441-457.
[14] D. Shalev (2017) “Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio Obliqua in Literary Classic Greek, with Special Reference to Drama and Plato”. In Poccetti, Paolo (ed.), Oratio Obliqua. Strategies of Reported Speech in Ancient Languages, Pisa – Roma: Serra, 129-152.
[15] D. Shalev (To Appear) “How to do persuasive things with (ipsissima) verba: direct speech examples in the chapter on ἐρώτησις in Aristotle Rhetoric and its medieval Arabic translation” 37 pp. (Peer reviewed)
[16] D. Shalev (2018) “Eutocius of Ashkelon, Eratosthenes’ Epistle to King Ptolemy”. In Gera, Deborah, Daniela Dweck & Nurit Shoval Dudai (eds.) The Words of Japeth, an Anthology of Writings by Greek Intellectuals in Ancient Palestine, Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 81-88. [Hebrew] (Peer reviewed).
[17] D. Shalev (Forthcoming) ‘Unreportable Tokens, Speech Representation and Conventions of Textual Composition’. In R. Zelnick-Abramovitch, J. Price (eds.), Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama: Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg. Routledge, 21pp.
5. Articles in Refereed Journals:
[18] D. Shalev (1998), Review of E. Dickey, Greek Forms of Address From Herodotus to Lucian (Oxford: 1996). Scripta Classica Israelica, xvii, 235-238.
[19] D. Shalev (2001) “Illocutionary Clauses Accompanying Questions in Greek Drama and in Platonic Dialogue”. Mnemosyne, n.s. 4, vol. liv/5, 531-561.
[20] D. Shalev (2001), Review of S. Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes. The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature (Oxford: 1999). Scripta Classica Israelica, xx, 275-282.
[21] D. Shalev (2002) “Exclamatory Sentences, Intonation, and the Verbs -clama- vs. Neutral verba dicendi”. Papers on Grammar, VIII, 229-260.
[22] D. Shalev (2005) “Action Nouns in Reports of Speech”. Papers on Grammar, IX, 1-14.
[23] D. Shalev (2006) “Heliodorus' Speakers: Multiculturalism and Literary Innovation in Conventions for Framing Speech”. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 49, 175-201.
[24] D. Shalev (2006) “The Role of εὑρἠματα in the Lives of Diogenes Laertius, and Related Literature”. Hermes, 134/3, 309-337. (some interface with #9, but in English, with 5 page conspectus of invention passages, and elaboration of philological and literary argument, biographical and sympotic literature).
[25] D. Shalev (2008) “Speech Act Theory, and Ancient Sources for the Division of λὀγος”. Papers on Grammar, X, 243-275.
[26] D. Shalev (2011) “Mimēsis, Dihēgēsis, Style: Socrates’ Paraphrase in Plato Republic 393d8-394a6 of Homer Iliad 1.11-42”. Papers on Grammar, XI, 233-272.
[27] D. Shalev (2012) “Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: From Euripides' Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts”. Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxi, 161-183.
[28] D. Shalev (2013) “Prorsus as a Response Formula in Ficino’s Latin: Plato, Gorgias 513d6-514d2”. Journal of Latin Linguistics, 12 (1), 123-136.
[29] D. Shalev (2013) Review of Leonardo Tarán and Dimitri Gutas Aristotle Poetics Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries (Leiden: 2012) Scripta Classica Israelica, xxxii, 265-272.
[30] D. Shalev (2014) “Muḍṭariban maǧnūnan: A Case of Phraseology and Evolving Motifs of Literary and Medical Love-Sickness in the Tale of Salāmān and Absāl”. Arabica 61, issues 3-4, 219-251. (Some common ground with #12, but in English; extensive elaborations and additions, including Platonic materials and medieval Arab medical sources).
[31] D. Shalev (Accepted) “Linguistic Features in Medieval (and Other) Arabic Translations of Plato: Dialogue Technique and Abstraction”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 52 pp. (English expansion and reworking of #11 for abstraction; section on dialogue technique mainly new).
[32] D. Shalev (2015) “Socrates Playing with Meletus: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterlife of a Chreia”. Journal of Latin Linguistics 14/1. 127-153.
[33] D. Shalev (2015) “Collected Papers on Greek into Latin in the Context of Translation Movements in Antiquity”. Scripta Classica Israelica 34. 227-245.
After last appointment
[34] H. Rosén & D. Shalev (2017) “Quasi: Its Grecizing (?) syntactic patterns”. Pallas 103. 273-282.
Submitted or in preparation
[35] D. Shalev (submitted) “Not Yes and Not No: μέση ἀπόκρισις and Other Forms of ‘Indirect Response’ in Ancient Greek Literary, Theoretical and Exegetical Sources.” 34 pp.
[36] D. Shalev (in preparation) “The particle δή and levels of commitment in Ancient Greek, with special reference to Exegetical uses in the Scholia and in Galen’s Greek and Medieval Arabic Versions.” 15pp.
[37] D. Shalev (in preparation) “Expressions of Attenuation and Sentence Type in Plato Latinus: που et alia in the Translations of the Phaedo by Aristippus, Bruni and Ficino” 22pp.
[38] D. Shalev (in preparation) “Once Upon A Case History: Opening Gambits and Other Structural Elements in Galen, with special reference to the narrative style in the Greek of De locis affectis 5.8” 29 pp.
6. Participation in Scientific Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity:
[1] May 1992, Jerusalem: ‘Euphemism in Menander’ [in Hebrew], (Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference). (lecture)
[2] February, 1997, Yale University: ‘The Perfect in Narrative’. Classics Seminar lecture
[3] April, 1997, Madrid: ‘Vocatives in Responses: A Bridging Mechanism in Dialogue Exchange?’ (9th International Conference of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[4] May, 1998, Tel Aviv: ‘Verse-Break in Attic Drama and the Term Antilabe’ [in Hebrew], (Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies Annual Conference). (lecture)
[5] April, 1999, Paris: ‘A Pattern of Agent Expression in Non-Active and Non-Personal Expressions in Latin’, (10th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists). (lecture)
[6] May, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘Heliodorus’ Speakers’, [Hebrew] Hebrew University Classics Seminar (year on Ethnography) (lecture)
[7] June, 2000, Bologna: ‘Yes and No in Classical Greek Literary Dialogue Texts’, (Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis). (lecture)
[8] July, 2000, Jerusalem: ‘On Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of Theomnestus’ Hippiatrica’ (From Jahiliyya to Islam: International Colloquium). (response)
[9] June, 2001, Bar Ilan ‘Cultural Norms and Codes for Conversation in Classical Greek Sources’ [in Hebrew] (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel) (lecture).
[10] June, 2001, Amsterdam, ‘Verbs as Cues for Exclamatory Sentences: Exclamo et al., Inquam et al.’, (11th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[11] June, 2001, Amsterdam. ‘Textual Conventions, Discourse Stages, and Grammatical Form: Directives in Prescriptive Passages’ (contribution to Workshop on Discourse Cohesion in Latin).
[12] June, 2001, Amsterdam prepared response to another contribution (Ego sum Amphitruo: Der Satztyp “Selbstidentifikation”) in the Workshop on Discourse Cohesion in Latin.
[13] September, 2001, Yale. English version of [9] at Interdepartmental Seminar (lecture).
[14] January, 2002, Philadelphia. ‘Traditional Grammars and the Syntax of Literary Dialogue Texts’ (Meeting of the American Philological Association) (lecture, invited to panel on new approaches to Greek Grammar ‘Life After Smyth’).
[15] May, 2002, Jerusalem. ‘Survival of Greek Literary Texts’ (Scholion Forum on Genizah and Canon) (lecture, and mediated discussion).
[16] June, 2002, Jerusalem ‘Plato adapts Homer: from Mimetic to Diegetic Narrative’ [Hebrew]. Hebrew University Classics Dept. seminar (year on Sources and Adaptations) (lecture).
[17] March, 2003, London. Expanded version of [13] (= [9], but in English) with literary as well as theoretical sources (Institute of Classical Studies Greek Literature Seminar) (lecture).
[18] April, 2003, Salzburg. ‘Indirectness in Ancient Greek Comedy’ (Conference of the International Association of Dialogue Analysis) (lecture).
[19] April, 2003, Salzburg. Chair and respondent of session on discourse markers in dialogue in Latin (Conference of the International Association of Dialogue Analysis).
[20] June, 2003, Bologna. ‘The Verbal Noun in Reports of Speech’ (12th International Colloquium of Latin Linguists) (lecture).
[21] June, 2004, Jerusalem, ‘New Under the Sun? Discourse Theory in Antiquity’ [Hebrew] (Discourse and Discourses: Media, Message, Meaning. International Conference in Honour of Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka) (invited lecture).
[22] June 2004, Jerusalem, ‘Solomonic Images in the Literary-Cultural Tradition in Antiquity’ [Hebrew] (A Temple of Stone and Shrines of Words: King Solomon and his Cultural Image: An Academic Cabaret) (joint lecture with Dr.
Oded Ir-Shai).
[23] Jan. 2005, Jerusalem, ‘Language and Translation as Factors and Symptoms of Canonization, Selection, Nachleben: Reception, Survival, and Popularity’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture).
[24] March 2005, Jerusalem, (with Prof. Amiah Lieblich) ‘What is Classical?’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Group Seminar, Scholion (public lecture and mediated discussion).
[25] June 2005, Jerusalem, ‘πρῶτος εὑρετής: First Inventor as Founding Figure among the Greeks: The Cases of Protagoras and Pythagoras in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers’ [Hebrew]. Canon and Genizah Culminating Conference, Scholion Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies (lecture) (some overlap with talk [26] but exclusively on Greek sources, and on priority conflict in the formats of invention narratives).
[26] May 2006, Jerusalem, ‘Integration of Invention Passages in Diogenes Laertius' Composition Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, and in Germane Texts in the Arabic Tradition’ [Hebrew]. Classics Department Seminar (lecture) (some overlap of topic with talk [25], but presenting Arabic sources, and Walter Burleigh).
[27] May 2007, Jerusalem, ‘The Arabic Translation of Plato's Story of Gyges and the Ring’ [Hebrew]. (Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel (lecture).
[28] June 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Katabasis in Plato and Its Later Manifestations in Medieval Arabic Sources’ [Hebrew]. (Annual Conference on Ancient Cultures and Literatures 'Katabasis', Humanities Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
[29] July 2008, Jerusalem, ‘Didactic Setting in Socratic Dialogue, Formal Transition, and Reference to Format in Arabic Accounts of Plato's Oeuvre’ (Paideia and Scripture Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[30] October 2008, Tel Aviv, ‘ 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: The Expression 'nai' in Attic Comedy and its Place in the Language System and in Theory’ (Conference to Honour Netta Zagagi, Tel Aviv University) (talk [36] below is an English version with elaborations).
[31] February 2009, Jerusalem ‘On the Text of Aristotle's Poetics and its Fate in the Arab Middle Ages: General Background and a Close Reading of Chapter 19’ (Group on Ibn Rushd's Commentary of Aristotle Poetics, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem).
[32] May 2009, Jerusalem ‘Eros and Illness in Greek Romantic and Medical Texts and Its Transmission into Arabic in the Middle Ages’ (Mishkenot Sha’ananim conference on Greek Culture).
[33] February 2010, Haifa ‘Phenomena in the Language of Plato in Arabic Translation’ (Haiim Rosén Decade Memorial Session, Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Linguistics, Haifa University).
[34] October 2010, Jerusalem ‘Locus Amoenus and Relations in the Family’ (Departmental Seminar, Classics).
[35] December 2010, Jerusalem ‘Verbal Hybris, Professional Ego, (? and ἠθοποιία) in Greek Sources: The Case of the Doctor-Philosopher Galen’ (Annual Meeting on Ancient Literatures, 'Hybris').
[36] January 2011, Helsinki ‘Saying 'Yes' in Ancient Greek: the Expression 'ναί' in Attic Comedy, and its Place in Theory’ (Guest Lecture at the Classics Seminar) (Expanded, English, version of talk [30]).
[37] March 2011, Jerusalem: ‘Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: from Euripides' Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts – And Back’ ('Greeks and the Irrational' a Conference in Memory of Martin Ostwald).
[38] June 2011, Atlanta: ‘Platon écrivain: the Notion and Term ποικιλία and Its Nachleben in Arabic Doxographical Sources’ (Annual Conference of the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies).
[39] March 2012, Jerusalem: ‘Greek in Latin, Greek into Latin: ναί, res, and More’ (Dept. Seminar, Classics).
[40] November 2012, Tsfat: ‘Galen's de optimo medico cognoscendo, the Literary Motif of Medical Questioning in Greek and Arabic’ (Galen in Arabic and Hebrew, International Conference at Bar Ilan Medical School).
[41] January 2013, Tel Aviv: ‘Dialogue Passages from Plato in the Medieval Arabic Tradition: Dialogue and Translation Technique’ (Dept. Seminar, Tel Aviv University Classics). (Hebrew original on which talk [44], in English, elaborates).
[42] May 2013, Rome: ‘Observations on the Notion and Application of Oratio Obliqua in Greek: Plato and Germane Sources’ (Panel Talk, International Conference of Latin Linguistics).
[43] December 2013, Jerusalem: ‘The Mise-en-Scène of Diagnosis in Arabic Medical Sources, adab, and Romantic belles-lettres, With Special Reference to Ibn Sina and Others Drawing on Greek Sources’ (Lecture at Reunion Conference for ‘Jewish Physicians’ research group, Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem).
[44] January 2014, Sevilla: ‘Platonic Dialogue and its Translation into Medieval Arabic’ (Guest Lecture, Aula Luis Cernuda, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Sevilla) (English version of talk [41], with additional discussion of Spanish and Modern Arabic translations).
[45] September 2014, London: ‘How To Do (Persuasive) Things with ipsissima verba: The Greek Text of Aristotle Rhetoric III ch.18, and Its Arabic Nachleben’ (Lecture at the Conference 'Language of Persuasion: Linguistic Approaches to Its Theory and Practice in the Classical World' at UCL).
[46] March 2015, Rome: ‘Urbanitas, Attenuated Declaratives and Interrogation in Ancient Greek Dialogue’ (lecture, Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics).
[47] June 2015, Toulouse: ‘Quasi and other complementizers of non-direct discourse in different phases of Latin’ (lecture, with Hannah Rosén, at the International Colloquium of Latin Linguistics).
[48] June 2015, Ra‘anana: ‘Socrates Playing with Meletos: the Pedigree, Birth, and Afterbirth of a Chreia’ (lecture, at the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, and chairing of session in memory of Prof. S. Scolnicov)
After last appointment
[49] October 2015, Verona: ‘Between Mimesis and Diegesis: Unreportable Utterances’ (invited lecture at conference on Diegesis and Mimesis in Fiction and Drama, University of Verona).
[50] November 2015, Berlin: ‘Germane Bauformen in the Greek Sympotic Tradition and in Arabic Adab Sources: Format, Textual Parameters, and Cultural Transfer’ (invited lecture at conference ‘Narratives on Translation’, Max Planck Institute).
[51] March 2016, Jerusalem: ‘Transfer of Motifs from Greek to Arabic Sources: Symposium to Munāẓara as a Case Study’ (guest lecture at the School for Sciences and Arts).
[52] February 2017, London ‘Platonic Dialogue and Plato’s Dialogues in Medieval Arabic Translations’, Guest lecture, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
[53] May 2017, Bochum “Whose Katabasis, Gyges, Georgios or Jirjīs? Variations on the Theme of Descent’ (Self-Reflective Traditions at CERES Bochum).
[54] June 2017, Tel Aviv ‘ “Unreportable” Elements in διήγησις ἁπλῆ, Paraphrase and Exegesis’. (invited lecture at conference ‘Language and Text’ to honor the retirement of Margalit Finkelberg).
[55] November 2017, Tel Aviv “Katabasis Variations on the Theme of Descent in Plato, Christian Hagiography, and Arabic Adab,” (Classics Department Departmental Seminar).
[56] November, 2017, Jerusalem ‘Breaking News: New Discoveries of Texts by Ancient Greek Authors’ Talk for annual visit of IASA humanities stream high school students hosted by the classics department.
[57] February, 2018, Jerusalem ‘Case Histories of Women’s Complaints and other Diseases in Galen and other pre-Modern Texts’ talk delivered to the OB-GYN staff at Hadassah Mount Scopus.
[58] May 2018, New Haven, ‘A Format of hypophora, Plato’s Crito and Germane Passages’ Invited Lecture at A Colloquium to Celebrate Victor Bers’s Career at Yale Department of Classics, Yale University.
[59] January 2019, Jerusalem, ‘The particle δή and levels of commitment in Ancient Greek’
[60] May 2019, Tel Aviv, ‘Once Upon A Case History’ at the ISPCS.
Invited
[61] May 2020, Haifa ‘Classical Philology in the Shtetl and the Metropolis: Plato, Homer and other Classical Texts in Yiddish Translations and their Contextualizations’.
Curriculum Vitae
Donna Shalev
Updated: 10.2018
1. Personal Details
Date of Birth: 15.4.64 Country of Birth: U.S.
Immigration: 1987 Nationality: Israel and U.S.
Marital Status: Married Children: 2
I.D. number: 01174287/1
Permanent Address: 7, Ibn Ezra St., Jerusalem 92424
Telephone: 02-5639134 (h) 02-5883916 (w)
Fax: 02-5639134 (h) 02-5881245 attn D. Shalev (w)
Email: donna@mail.huji.ac.il
2. Higher Education
1982/3 Princeton University General Freshman Year
10.1983-1.1988 Hebrew University Classics,
Arabic Language and Literature B.A.
10.1989-9.1996 Oxford University Classics D. Phil.*
(St. John's College) (supervisor: P.G. McC. Brown)
3. Appointments at the Hebrew University
15.2-15.6.1992 Assistant Instructor Classics
10/92-9/97 Instructor Classics
10/98-9/00 Dr.-Instructor Classics
10/00-2/08 Lecturer Classics
3/08-8/15 Senior Lecturer Classics
8/15 - Associate Professor Classics
4. Additional Functions at the Hebrew University
- 2006 - 2011: Invited to join the Academic Committee, Scholion Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies
- 2008 (Fall): Classics Representative of the Acquisitions and Development Committee at the Humanities/Social Sciences University Library, Mount Scopus Campus
- 2009 (Fall) – 2018 (Summer): Committee Member, Promotions and Tenure of Adjunct Academic Staff.
- 2012-3: Co-organizer, Classics Departmental Seminar.
After last appointment
- 2016/7-present: Chair, Classics Department.
- 2018-: Bloomfield Library Committee.
5. Service in other Academic and Research Institutions
1. 2002/3: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies (part of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London).
2. 2009/10: Participant, Van Leer Institute Research Group on Ibn Rushd and the Nachleben of Aristotle's Poetics.
3. 2012 Spring: Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Group on Jewish Physicians in Medieval Christian Europe: Professional Knowledge as a Cultural Change.
6. Other Activity
1. 1989: Prize in memory of Sarah Dworetzky for excellence in Classical Studies.
2. 1999/2000: Reader for Scripta Classica Israelica, the periodical of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.
3. 2000/01: Golda Meir Award for Excellence of New Lecturers
4. 6/2004: Co-organizer of Workshop: Transfer of Culture: Translation, Revision, Interpretation
5. 6/2005: Co-organizer of conference culminating Canon and Genizah, Scholion, Jerusalem.
6. 2006: Member of ISF grant reading committee
7. 2008-2012: Editorial Board of Papers on Grammar
8. 2008-12: Editorial Board of Scripta Classica Israelica
9. 2010; 2016-: Elected representative of Hebrew University of the Organizing Committee for the Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel.
10. 2012-: Editorial Board of Journal of Latin Linguistics
11. 2012: Referee for book submission, American Philosophical Society Monographs.
12. 12/2013: Co-organizer of conference on Archimedes, Jerusalem.
13. 2015: Organizer, Session in Memory of S. Scolnikov, ISPCS conference
14. 2015-: Advisory Board of Skene, periodical for dramatic studies
after last appointment
15. 9.2016-present: co-organizer of reading group for Galenic texts in Greek and Arabic (and other) translations in the pre-Modern traditions.
16. 6-7.6.2018: Co-organizer (with Lisa Maurice and David Schaps), International Conference of the ISPCS hosted by the Classics Department at the Hebrew University.
17. 22.1.2019: Co-organizer (with Linguistics Dept., Prof. Szyldkrot Ben Zeev, and the Academic Committee of the Society), Annual Conference of the H.B. Rosén Israel Linguistics Society.
18. June 2019: Hosted Erasmus Exchange Visitor Professor Simone Beta from Università di Siena.
7. Membership in Professional Associations
1. Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in Israel
2. International Association for Dialogue Analysis
3. American Philological Association
8. Research Grants
1. 1990: AVI fellowship 2000 Pounds Sterling
2. 1997/8: Lady Davis postdoctoral research fellowship 57,600 NIS
Publications: 5, 7, 11, 12
3. 9.2001: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Dialogue Technique in Ancient Greek Literary Texts) 21K USD/ year
Publications: 8, 9, 14, 15, 16
4. 9.2005: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Arabic Translation from Greek Attributed to Ḥunain b. Isḥāq) 20K USD/ year
Publications: 10, 12, 19, 23
5. 9.2008: 3-year research grant from ISF
(Survival of Plato in Arabic, and the Form of the Text) 63K NIS/year
Publications: 11, 22, 24
6. 9.2014: 3-year grant from ISF, with H. Rosén
(Non-direct discourse in Greek, Latin and other languages) 115K NIS/year
after last appointment
- 9.2017: 3-year grant from ISF
(Studies in the Language and Form of Galen’s Case Histories and their Arabic Translations) 150k NIS/year
9. Teaching Duties at the Hebrew University
The courses I have taught and continue to teach are:
B.A.
Beginners Greek, Greek 4-hours; Latin 4-hours; Advanced Greek; Advanced Latin.
Introduction to Classical Culture: Greece.
Homer Iliad; Sophocles Electra; Euripides Hippolytos; Euripides Alcestis; Euripides Hercules Furens; Aristophanes Clouds; Menander Samia; Menander Dyskolos; Terence Eunuchus; Attic Orators; the Greek Novel; Xenophon and Herodotus; Greek Lyric Poetry; The Classical Textual Tradition; Ovid, Metamorphoses; The Greek Novel; Latin Epistolary Works: Pliny and Cicero.
B.A. /M.A.
Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence;
Greek Narrative Texts: Homer, Euripides, Lysias;
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue;
Linguistic Thought in Greek Sources;
Greek Works of the Imperial Period: Galen, Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus; Homer and Herodotus: Investigations in Kunstsprache and Dialect;
Cicero via Plato: Latin Metaphysical Texts and their Artistry;
Euripides' Bacchae and the Birth of Tragedy;
Patterns and Format of Narrative in Greek Literature: Homer to Galen;
Greek into Arabic: Aristotle Poetics, Plato Republic, Galen ‘that the best physician is also a
philosopher’ selected readings and background of the translation movements;
Aristophanic Comedy and Cultural Critique: the Clouds and Wasps;
Terentius, Greek Sources and Ancient Commentators;
Fiction in Classical Sources and the Ancient Greek Novel: Motifs and Literary Conventions
Plato’s Artistry
Theophrastus’ Characters
Ancient Roman Novel
Comedy and Paratragedy
Katabasis in Classical and Late Antique Greek Texts
9a. Supervision
2013, from fall semester - 2014 spring semester: MA student, Nadav Asraf
2014, from fall semester – 2017 fall semester: MA student, Yona Gonopolsky
2018, from spring semester: Ph.D. student, Yona Gonopolsky
2018/9, from fall semester: Ph.D. student, Michael Kopf
2019/2020 academic year: Postdoctoral Lady Davis Fellow Dylan James
קורות חיים
פרסומים
פרויקטים עתידיים ולשעבר (מלגות וקרנות מחקר)
לינק לאתר של החוג
אקדמיה. אדו
קבוצת קריאה של גלנוס