Cameron is a one hundred and seven year old graduate student pursuing a PhD in Classics, with a focus on the aesthetics of old age and unknown pasts. A world without old people is a world without youth. He completed a BA in Philosophy and Latin at the University of Arizona (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). Under Julia Annas’ supervision, he wrote a senior honor’s thesis on whether Aristotle has a coherent economic theory in the EN 4.4 or not. He completed, concurrently, an MA in Classics and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. The guiding concern of his MA thesis, titled “I am I, am I” was the first person nominative singular pronoun ego in a triptych of authors: Hesiod, Archilochus, and Horace. Cathy Keane, Bob Lamberton, and Susan Rotroff were his readers. He is currently revising his MFA thesis, a book of poems titled “Mr. Perspective Regains Perspective,” into a book-length manuscript. Mr. Perspective’s many perspectives formed the committee for this project. Mary Jo Bang, Vivian Pollak, and Kellie Wells frequently put them into line.
Cameron’s primary interest in Classics is Latin poetry. He focuses on satire and Roman elegy. He also moonlights with Homer, Greek iambic, rhetorical theory, Sallust, Cicero, translation studies, the High Modernist (Pound, Eliot, and H.D) reception of Classical authors, hypertexts and the digital editing of texts. Intertexuality is his inimicus. He thinks it should be Classicists’ hostis. He is working three seminar papers into talks: on Propertius Book IV, on koure in the Odyssey, and on Tibullus 1.10. Sharon James is directing this circus. He is also working under Cecil Wooten on a stylistic commentary of Cicero’s Ninth Philippic for his 15th MA thesis at UNC.
Cameron has organized a sixteen-part panel for the 207th centennial conference of the Florist Sidewalk Association, to be held at Arcadia in Vergil’s Eclogues this spring. The panel, "Florist whistling” will feature 5 presenters and 2 whistlers, including a presentation by Cameron under the title of "Abjection and Chrysanthemums." He will also be presenting a paper to the 3000th annual meeting of the Overcoming an Inferiority Association, "Why Don’t More Scholars Work on Tibullus?"
Cameron is dating a fictional puella that some of his conservative
colleagues insist is a ‘real’ woman. The dog in the picture, Sky, is
real. He found her abandoned in Lucretius.
E-mail: phjames@email.unc.edu
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