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Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article on "Literary Patronage" in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A Erskine, and S. Huebner; Blackwell 2013).  This appears in the Wiley Online Library.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was invited to be a guest at the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis.  While there she gave a lecture titled "Juvenal the Roman Satirist: One Man or Many?"  She also gave a workshop for faculty and graduate students on "What is a Cinaedus?"

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, attended and spoke at an invited, international conference at the Fondation Hardt in Geneva, Switzerland, in October.  This conference center is the site of small international conferences on specific topics in classical studies, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article, “Juvenal: The Idea of the Book,” in A Companion to Persius and Juvenal, edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood (Wiley-Blackwell 2012).

An article by Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara K. Gold was reprinted in a collection from Oxford University Press. “The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius" appears in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Propertius, edited by E. Greene and T.S. Welch.

Barbara K. Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article, "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?," in A Companion to Roman Love Elegy, ed. B.K. Gold.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Barbara Gold,  the Edward North Professor of Classics, gave an invited lecture, “A Woman's View of War: Simone Weil and the Iliad,” at a conference on Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception, held at the University of Maryland on April 1. 

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published a book, A Companion to Roman Love Elegy (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), which she edited and for which she wrote the introduction.  The book has 33 chapters written by contributors from six different countries.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article titled “Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua’s Prison Diary” in the 2011 edition of the international journal Eugesta. The article focuses on gender ambiguities and fluctuations in Perpetua’s Passio (prison diary) as she awaits martyrdom. 

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany will feature a reading by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. During her reading, Gold examines how the ancient Romans and contemporary Americans have expressed emotion and passion and what an ancient Valentine would look like.