College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Classics The University of Iowa

Craig GibsonCraig Gibson

Associate Professor
Co-Editor, Syllecta Classica

The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1418
E-mail: craig-gibson@uiowa.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Craig A. Gibson is associate professor of Classics, and has been with the department since 1999. Courses he teaches include Gender & Sexuality in the Ancient World, Ancient Law and Society, and courses in Latin and Greek literature at all levels. Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric, ancient scholarship, and later Greek literature are his main areas of expertise. His current research focuses on later Greek rhetorical education. He is the author of Interpreting a Classic: Demosthenes and his Ancient Commentators (2002) and Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric (2008). He is currently working on several articles dealing with progymnasmata and declamation. Professor Gibson received a B.A. in Classics from Rhodes College and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University.