Books

A Compulsion for Antiquity:  Freud and the Ancient World. Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 2005. Paperback edition, Cornell UP 2006. For some reviews in brief, go here.

Edited Volumes

Remusings: Essays on the Translation of Classical Poetry, special issue of the journal Classical and Modern Literature 27.1. Co-edited with Elizabeth Vandiver.

Book Chapters

"Classical Translations of the Classics: The Dynamics of Literary Tradition in Retranslating Epic Poetry." Translation and the "Classic," edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.

“Last Words: Said, Freud, and Traveling Theory.”   Edward Said and Critical Decolonialization , edited by Ferial Ghazoul. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007.   Pp. 120-148.

"Translating Ancient Epic," in A Companion to Ancient Epic. Blackwell Pubishing, 2005. Paperback edition, 2008.

With colleagues at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin I participated in an interdisciplinary research project titled Archive der Vergangenheit (see website). See my chapter "Urorte und Urszenen. Freud und die Figuren der Archäologie" in

Die Aktualität des Archäologischen, edited by Knut Ebeling and Stefan Altekamp.  Frankfurt am Main:  Fischer Verlag, 2004.  Pp. 137-158.  See reviews from Germany and Sweden.

Online Articles and Presentation Archives

Engines of our Ingenuity Episodes:

• “Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2228 (first aired June 8, 2007), transcript and audio archived at: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm
• “Cuckoos and Cuckoldry,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2231 (first aired June 15, 2007), transcript and audio archived at: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2231.htm
• “College Yiddish vs. Modern Hebrew,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2356 (first aired April 9, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2356.htm .
• “The Longest Year in History,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2364 (first aired April 23, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2364.htm .
• “Time Out of Joint,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2368 (first aired April 29, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2368.htm .
• “Two German Phrasebooks,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2373 (first aired May 13, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2373.htm.
• “Hitler’s Copyright,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2375 (first aired May 20, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2375.htm.
• “The Invention of the Paperboy,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2382 (first aired June 10, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2382.htm.
• “Roman Political Invective,” Engines of our Ingenuity episode 2408 (first aired August 26, 2008), transcript and audio archived at http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2408.htm.

Roundtables, Radio Discussions, and Videos

• NPR Radio: Odyssey (WBEZ Chicago): "Reviving Ancient Greece"
• Philoctetes Center, New York: "The Origins of Freud's Imagination"
• Philoctetes Center, New York: "Freud and the Historical Imagination"
• Center for Jewish History, New York: "Marooned Mandarins: Classical Education, Freud, and the Jews of Vienna."
• Humboldt University, Berlin: "Urorte und Urszene: An Archaeology of Freud's Archaeology."

Articles and Papers online:

• From Huponoia to Paranoia: On the Secular Co-optation of Homeric Religion in Vico, Feuerbach, and Freud (Center for Hellenic Studies)
• "Oedipus as Evidence:  The Theatrical Background to Freud's Oedipus Complex." 
• "Oedipus in Performance: 1881-1912."