Rate My Professor Janice Siegel

Dr. Janice Siegel serves as Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Classics Department at Hampden-Sydney College. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a focus on Latin and Greek from Rutgers University in 1994, her M.A. in Comparative Literature (Latin and Greek) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature (Latin and French) from the same institution in 1983. Her research interests encompass Latin and Greek language and literature, particularly Latin poetics and Augustan Age poetry such as Ovid, intertextuality, classical reception, classics and mythology in film, classical tradition, comparative literature, mythology, and classical civilization. Siegel has authored numerous publications, including 'The Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Homer's Odyssey' in Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada (2007), 'Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer and Euripides’ Bacchae' in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2005), and 'Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney Procne' in Classical Culture and Myth in the Cinema (2001). She has also produced a series of surveys on 'Audio-Visual Materials in Classics' published in Classical World across multiple years: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. Ongoing book projects include Ovid's Procne: A Case Study in Intertext and Teaching Classical Mythology with Television and Film.

Siegel has received prestigious awards and fellowships, such as a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Spetses, Greece, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant from Harvard University, a Summer Scholar's Program at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Travel Grant, and an Adelaide E. Hahn Scholarship from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. At Hampden-Sydney College, she has held the Mellon Grant for Western Culture Course Development and the Bortz Technology Award. She contributes to college service as Chair of the Department, member of committees including Promotion and Tenure, Student Affairs, Professional Development, and International Studies, advisor to freshmen, Honors students, Classics Club, and Eta Sigma Phi, and leader of study abroad trips to Greece and Turkey. Professionally, she serves as Collegiate Membership Director for the Classical Association of Virginia, has presented papers at conferences such as the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and the Science Fiction Foundation Conference in Liverpool, and acts as a peer reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program in Ancient and Classical Studies. Her dissertation, 'Child-feast and revenge: Ovid and the myth of Procne, Philomela and Tereus' (1994), underscores her focus on Ovidian themes. Siegel maintains Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World, a comprehensive online resource with thousands of photos of ancient sites and an audio-visual database for classics teaching, enhancing pedagogical resources in the field.