NANCY J. SHUMATE

Phone: 413-585-3663

Building: Neilson Library A/12

E-mail: nshumate@email.smith.edu

Office Hours: On leave fall semester

Nancy Shumate, Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, received the B.A. in Classical Studies from Indiana University and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University.

At Smith she h as taught all levels of Latin language and literature as well as several courses in translation, including "Cleopatra: Histories, Fictions, Fantasies," and a First Year Seminar entitled "Barbarians at the Gates: T he Idea of Decline from the Romans to the Computer Age."

Her main areas of interest are the Roman novel, Roman Satire, and the literature and culture of the early empire . Her book, Crisis and Conversion in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, appeared in 1996, and she is currently working on a book entitled Nation, Empire, Decline: Five Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era.