Amy Vail '84, will give a lecture "The Case of the Disappearing Skull" at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1 in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. Her talk will address the question of why so many people have mistranslated the phrase Et in Arcadia ego. She will argue that paintings by Guercino, Poussin, and Seekatz offer clues but that Vergil’s Eclogues suggest a likely answer.
While at Hamilton, Vail received a Fitch Prize Scholarship in Classics and the John Weaver Prize in Poetry. She was a member of the College Hill Singers, Classical Music Director for WHCL and wrote weekly op-eds and music reviews for The Spectator. After graduating from Hamilton with a double major in German and Classics, Vail received her M.A. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and subsequently studied at the University of Durham, England. After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D at the Ohio State University and is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Baylor University. Vail's interests in 18th century German literature and Homeric epic come together in her book, The Last of Homer's Children: Goethe Singing Epic, to be published this year by the Edwin Mellen Scholarly Press.
While at Hamilton, Vail received a Fitch Prize Scholarship in Classics and the John Weaver Prize in Poetry. She was a member of the College Hill Singers, Classical Music Director for WHCL and wrote weekly op-eds and music reviews for The Spectator. After graduating from Hamilton with a double major in German and Classics, Vail received her M.A. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and subsequently studied at the University of Durham, England. After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D at the Ohio State University and is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Baylor University. Vail's interests in 18th century German literature and Homeric epic come together in her book, The Last of Homer's Children: Goethe Singing Epic, to be published this year by the Edwin Mellen Scholarly Press.
