Hamilton College Dean Named Editor of The American Journal of Philology

Barbara Gold, associate dean of the faculty and professor of classics at Hamilton College, has been named editor of The American Journal of Philology, the oldest and most prestigious classics journal in the U.S. The journal was founded in 1880 at Johns Hopkins by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, a renowned classicist and early member of Johns Hopkins, and is still published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Gold, currently an associate editor, will take over the editorship in early summer. She is the first woman editor and this will be the first time that this journal will be housed at a college, not a university.

 

Gold earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's and Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1989. Her research interests are Greek and Roman literature, comparative literature and women in antiquity. Dr. Gold has written several books, including Vile Bodies: Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse; Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition; and Literary and Artistic Patronage in Greece and Rome. She has also written numerous articles on the classics and feminist theory, as well as many reviews. In addition, she has delivered many papers and lectures at conferences and has been involved in various capacities with the American Philological Association.

 

At Hamilton College she has chaired the classics department, served on the women's studies committee, serves on the Campus Planning Committee, and Committee on Academic Policy.

 

She is a member of the American Classical League, American Philological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, and Classical Association of the Empire State.