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Melody Mark received her B.A. (Classics and History)from Santa Clara University (1998) and an M.A. (Classics) from the University of Claifornia, Santa Barbara (2001). Currently, she is working to finish her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, "The Paradox of Virtuous Women in Plutarch: A Study in Contrasts," is an examination of how the discussion of gender fits into the broader refiguring of the relationship between Greece and Rome in Plutarch's own day. Her interests include Greco-Roman cultural and social history, historiography, biography, and Greek drama. She has taught Greek and Roman history, a writing seminar on Greek tragedy in translation, and mythology. For her teaching, Melody has received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students (2003), the Fontaine Dissertaion-Year Fellowship (2005-6), the Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship (2006-7), the Center for Teaching and Learning's Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (2006-7), and the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (2007-8). |
