Degrees:
Ph.D., Stanford Univ.
B.A., Univ. of Washington
Vincent Tomasso received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2010 and his B.A. from the University of Washington in 2004. His research centers two aspects of the ancient world: ancient Greek poetry and the reception of antiquity by later cultures. He has written on Homer as well as on modern media, including literature, film, and comics. His current research focuses on the motif of ancient Greek gods dying as it appears in both ancient and modern cultures.
Dr. Tomasso's interest in understanding how the past and the present relate to one another has informed his approaches to teaching the languages and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean as both foreign and familiar to us now. Studying them allows us to understand our past as well as our present.
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Ancient Greek Literature
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Epic
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Mythology
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Film
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Archaic Greek poetry (esp. Homer and Hesiod)
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Imperial Greek literature (esp. poetry)
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Reception studies
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Mythology and folklore
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Popular culture
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Film
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Television
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Comics
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Publications:
- Tomasso, Vincent. “Rhapsodic Receptions of Homer in Multiform Proems of the Iliad.” American Journal of Philology 137 (2016): 377-409.
- Nygard, Travis and Vincent Tomasso. “Andy Warhol’s Alexander the Great: an Ancient Portrait for Alexander Iolas in a Postmodern Frame.” Classical Receptions Journal 8, no. 2 (2016): 253-275.
- Tomasso, Vincent. “The Twilight of Olympus: Deicide and the End of the Greek Gods.” In Classical Myth on Screen, edited by Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith Safran, 147-160. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Tomasso, Vincent. “Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica.” In Classical Traditions in Science Fiction, edited by Brett Rogers and Benjamin Stevens, 243-262. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Tomasso, Vincent. “Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder’s 300.” In Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World, edited by Monica S. Cyrino, 113-126. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Tomasso, Vincent. “The Fast and the Furious: the Reception of Homer in Triphiodorus’ Capture of Troy.” In Brill’s Companion to the Greek and Roman Epyllion, edited by Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär, 371-409. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
- Tomasso, Vincent. “Hard-Boiled Hot Gates: Making the Classical Past Other in Frank Miller’s Sin City: The Big Fat Kill.” In Classics and Comics, edited by C. W. Marshall and George Kovacs, 145-158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Presentations:
- “‘Those Crazy Greeks!': Federico Fellini’s Reception of Greek Culture in Fellini-Satyricon (1969).” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Williamsburg, VA, March 17, 2016.
- “The Journeys of the Ten Thousand in The Warriors (Hill 1979).” Film & History Conference, Madison, WI, November 7, 2015.
- “Classics Post-9/11 and New Heroes on Film.” New Heroes on Screen Conference, Delphi, Greece, July 1, 2015.
- Panel Organizer and Respondent: “Claiming Troy: The Reception of Homer in Imperial Greek Literature.” Meeting of the American Philological Association, Seattle, WA, January 1, 2013.
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- May Bumby Severy Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Ripon College, spring 2015.
- ACM-Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Classics, Ripon College, fall 2010-spring 2012.
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