Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin Garstad: Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D., School of Greek, Latin, and Ancient History, University of St Andrews: February, 2001. Dissertation title: The Titanomachy of Thallus and its Reception by the Latin Church Fathers. Supervisor: Professor Karla Pollmann
• B.A. (First Class Honours) in Classics and Early Christian Studies, University of Calgary: 1997

Employment And Teaching Experience

• 2017- : professor, MacEwan University
• 2013-2017: associate professor, MacEwan University
• 2010-2013: Chair, Department of Humanities, Grant MacEwan University
• 2007- 2010: Classics discipline coordinator, Department of Humanities, Grant MacEwan University
• 2006- : Classics instructor, Department of Humanities, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton Alberta
• 2006: substitute assistant professor, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• 2003-2005: visiting scholar, Department of Classics, Columbia University
• 2003-2005: adjunct assistant professor, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
• 2000-2003: full-time sessional instructor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary
• Editorial consultant to Oxford University Press, Peeters, Pearson Education, Inc., Journal of Late Antiquity, Journal of Medieval Latin, Helios and Electronic Antiquity

Courses Taught

• CLAS 102, Greek and Roman Mythology
• CLAS 270, Greek Civilization
• CLAS 272, Byzantine Civilization
• CLAS 305, Comparative Mythology
• CLAS 320, Greek Literature in Translation
• CLAS 321, Latin Literature in Translation
• LATN 302, Intermediate Latin II
• PHIL 498, Directed Readings (‘Philosophy, Myth and Utopia’)

Research Interests

• Greek and Roman myth, comparative mythology
• Euhemerus of Messene and the Euhemeristic Tradition
• Nonnus of Panopolis
• John Malalas and Christian world chronicles
• The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
• Ancient fiction and historiography: Euhemeristic texts, the Alexander Romance, Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius
• The interpretation of myth in pre-modern scholarship, particularly the historicization of myth
• Conceptions of the past in Ancient and Mediaeval literature