Casey Dué Hackney

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Casey Dué Hackney, sometimes cited or referred to as Casey Dué, is a professor of classical studies at the University of Houston,[1] and the Executive Editor for the Center for Hellenic Studies.[2] Her research interests centre around Homeric poetry, Greek tragedy and Greek oral traditions.[1]

Casey Dué Hackney
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (MA and PhD) Brown University (BA)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsUniversity of Houston

Education[]

Dué Hackney received her BA in Classical Philology from Brown University in 1996, then her A.M. and PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and 2001 respectively.[2]

Career[]

Dué Hackney joined the department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston in 2002.[3] She held a Center for Hellenic Studies fellowship in the academic year 2004–2005.[2]

Since 2001, Dué Hackney has been the co-editor of the Homer Multitext Project, incorporating the older Homer & the Papyri project,[1][4] with at the Center for Hellenic Studies.[5] This project aims to offer a digital edition of Homer through free access to a library of texts and images of or relating to manuscripts of the Iliad or the Odyssey.[6][7] In 2013, Dué Hackney was awarded a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as co-principal investigator with Ebbott, for a project to further the progress of the Homer Multitext Project, by linking a digital edition of Venetus A, the oldest complete extant manuscript of the Iliad, with images of the manuscript.[8]

Dué Hackney is a co-leader of the University of Houston arm of the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, an organisation for digital humanities in four Texas-based universities, begun in 2014.[9]

Selected bibliography[]

  • Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2002). ISBN 0-7425-2219-9
  • "Homer's Post-Classical Legacy." in J. M. Foley, ed., A Companion to Ancient Epic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
  • The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006). ISBN 0-292-70946-3
  • (ed.) Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0-674-03202-6
  • (with Mary Ebbott) Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0674035591
  • Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019). ISBN 9780674987364

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Faculty". ssl.uh.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Bio: Casey Dué". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  3. ^ "Casey Dué". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  4. ^ "Homer & the Papyri: Home". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  5. ^ "Diplomatic Editions of the Iliad". www.homermultitext.org. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  6. ^ "Homer Multitext - Landing". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  7. ^ Dué, Casey; Ebbott, Mary (2009-02-26). "Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer Multitext". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 003 (1). ISSN 1938-4122.
  8. ^ "Holy Cross Professor Co-Recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Grant | Newsroom | College of the Holy Cross". news.holycross.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  9. ^ "News & Events". www.uh.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.

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