Ted Gellar is a second-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Classics, with an M.A. focused on Greek along the way. He completed two B.A.s, in History and Political Science/International Relations, along with three minors (Classical Studies, Classical Greek, and Music Composition) at North Carolina State University in spring 2006. His interests in Classics include humor, gender studies, and intertextual analysis. He has recently completed the American Academy in Rome's Classical Summer School program, as well as the Vergilian Society's Cumae III tour.
Ted composes Western art music ("classical music"), and his compositions have been performed by musicians from Florida State University, North Carolina State University, Winthrop University, the Northwest School of the Arts, and the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra. In the summer of 2000, he attended the prestigious Tanglewood music festival for a pre-college program in composition. His latest work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, for female narrator and chamber orchestra, is the first composition ever to set texts from a slave narrative, and was premiered by the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra on Sunday, November 19, 2006.
Ted has organized a two-part panel for the 33rd annual conference (September 27-29, 2007) of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. The panel, "Female Bodies and Female Places: Gender and Otherness in Graeco-Roman Poetry," will feature 5 presenters and 2 respondents, including a presentation by Ted under the title of "Prostitutopography: Hangouts for Rome's others in Plautus and Martial." He will also be presenting a paper to the 139th (January 2008) annual meeting of the American Philological Association, "Pardalisca: Ancilla callida of Plautus' Casina."
E-mail: tedgellar@gmail.com
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