University of Pittsburgh


D. Mark Possanza

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