NAKATA--CV

EDUCATION:

University of California, Irvine, Ph.D. (transferred from University of California, Santa Barbara)

University of Hawai`i, M.A.

Brown University, M.A. coursework

Smith College, A.B., magna cum laude

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Luther College, Assistant Professor of Classics (2005--present)

Luther College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics (2004-05)

California State University, Long Beach, Classics Lecturer (2001)

University of California, Irvine, Classics Teaching Assistant/Associate (1995-98; 1999-2002)

University of California, Irvine, English Composition Program Teaching Assistant (2000)

University of California, Irvine, Humanities Core Program Teaching Associate (1998-99)

University of California, Irvine, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Text Correction Staff (1994-95, 2002, 2004)

University of Hawai`i, Latin Teaching Assistant (1990-91)

Brown University, Classics Research/Teaching Assistant (1986-88)

DISSERTATION:

Dum conderet urbem: Colonization Narratives in the Aeneid (2004)

Chair: Professor Andrew Zissos, University of California, Irvine

PAPERS:

" Res dura et regni novitas : Dido's Colonization Narrative," Classical Association of the Middle West and South Conference, St. Louis, MO (April 2004)

" Egredere o quicumque es : Italian, Trojan, or Greek," invited talk, Department of Classics, Luther College, Decorah, IA (March 2004)

" Minus obvia Grais : Buthrotum and its Problematic Founder," invited talk, Department of Classics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (March 2003)

"Models of Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid ," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Scottsdale, AZ (October 2002)

"'I Am Monarch of All I Survey': The Colonial Gaze in Aeneid 1.418-40," Thirty-Fifth Annual Comparative Literature Conference, California State University, Long Beach, CA (March 2000)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

University of California, Irvine, Humanities Associates Graduate Student Teaching Award (2002)

University of California, Irvine, Dissertation Fellowship (2002)

University of California, Irvine, English Composition Program, Teaching Distinction (2000)

University of California, Irvine, Department of Classics Graduate Prize (2000)

University of California, Irvine, Department of Classics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (1996)

University of California, Santa Barbara, Special Regents Fellowship (1992)

Brown University, Merit Fellowship (1986)

Phi Beta Kappa (elected to Zeta of Massachusetts, Smith College)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Philological Association

Classical Association of the Middle West and South

Women's Classical Caucus

Lambda Classical Caucus

American Classical League