Current Students :: Graduate Program

Kenneth DraperKenneth Draper

Education

  • M.A. 2008, Latin, Indiana University
  • B.A. 2005, Classics, Northwestern University

Academic Interests

  • Didactic poetry
  • Lyric poetry
  • Literary theory and criticism

Courses Taught

  • Greek 100 (First-Semester Greek)
  • Latin 150 (Second-Semester Latin)
  • Latin 250 (Vergil)
  • Latin 400 (Intensive Introduction to Literary Latin)
  • C209 (Medical Terminology)
  • Assisted in C101 (Greek Culture), C102 (Roman Culture), C206 (Classical Art and Archaeology)

Papers Presented

  • The Spoils of Peace: Hadrian's Private Leisure and Its Public Message in the Hunting Tondi, CAMWS 107th Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, 2011
  • "Epic and Epinician in Horace's Odes 3.3," CAMWS 106th Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, 2010
  • "Déjà  Vu?: Inversion in Herodotus' Stories of Croesus and Astyages," CAMWS 105th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 2009

Awards

  • 2011 - Norman T. Pratt Traveling Fellowship, Indiana University Department of Classical Studies
  • 2011 - Mary A. Grant Award from CAMWS for participation in the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome