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Jeffrey A. White, Ph.D.
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Academic School: |
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School of Arts and Sciences
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Academic Department: |
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Classical Languages, Irish Studies
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Titles/Responsibilities: |
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Chairman of Classical Languages
Coordinator of the Academic Program in Irish Studies
Professor, Classical Languages
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Plassmann Hall E-11
M, W, Th, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
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Academic Degrees: |
- Ph.D., Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975
- M.A., Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969
- NDEA Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967
- B.A., Classics (cum laude), Boston College, 1967
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Accomplishments: |
- Porphyry, The Cave of the Nymphs in The Odyssey, edited & translated by J. Duffy, P. Sheridan, L.G. Westerink, and J. White (Buffalo: Arethusa Monographs I, 1969).
- Fata Habent Libelli Manuscripti: Some Notes on a Justin Codex, LATOMUS 38 (1979) 223-230.
- “Bellerophon in the ‘Land of Nod’: Some Notes on ILIAD 6.153-211,” American Journal of Philology 103.2 (1982) 119-127. (Delivered orally, in an earlier draft, at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Boston, 29 December 1979.)
- “Towards a Critical Edition of Biondo Flavio’s Italia Illustrata: A Survey & An Evaluation of the MSS,” in Roma Nel’ Quattrocento: La Curia, La Corte, La Citta (Roma: Bulzoni Editore 1983) 267-293. (Delivered orally, in an earlier draft, at the Congress on Humanism in Rome in the Fifteenth Century, held at Columbia, on 8 December 1981.)
- Flavio Biondo: Italy Illuminated (Vol. I, Books I-IV). Editor, Translator, and Commentator. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Teaching Philosophy: |
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Honesty, thoughtfulness & thoroughness, precision, humility, establishing connections
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Current Research Interests/Projects: |
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Vol. 2, Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated
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