D. Mark Possanza
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987
D. Mark Possanza is Associate Professor of Classics and is currently serving as chair of the department. He specializes in Latin literature of the late Republic, didactic poetry, and textual criticism and transmission of texts. In 2004 he published a study of Germanicus Caesar’s Latin translation of Aratus’s Phaenomena: Translating the Heavens: Aratus, Germanicus, and the Poetics of Latin Translation (Peter Lang). He has also published articles on textual problems in various Latin authors. Most recently, he contributed a chapter, “Editing Ovid: Immortal Author and Material Text”, to the Blackwell Companion to Ovid, edited by Peter Knox (December 2007).
Selected Books
- Contact Information
- Office: 1521A Cathedral of Learning
- Phone: (412) 624-4486
- E-mail: possanza@pitt.edu
- Office Hours, spring 2008
- Monday 9:00 - 10:00 am
Wednesday 9:00 - 10:00 am
Thursday 3:00 - 4:00 pm
and by appointment
spring Term 2008 Courses
| Course Listing | Name | Days | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin 0220 | Intermediate Latin Verse | MWF | 11:00-11:50 am | CL 312 |
| Latin 1302/1303 | Latin Authors 2 (+Writ Practicum) | MWF | 2:00-2:50 pm | CL 208A |
| Classics 2012 | Introduction to Classical Studies | by app. | CL 1518 | |
| Latin 2216 | Latin Reading: Historians: Tacitus | Tu | 2:30-5:00 pm | CL 1518 |
