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

Craig GibsonCraig Gibson

Professor
Collegiate Scholar, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Co-Editor, Syllecta Classica

203 Jefferson Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1418
Telephone: 319-335-2324
E-mail: craig-gibson@uiowa.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Craig A. Gibson is 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, and (with Jeffrey Beneker) is producing a translation of Nikephoros Basilakes' Progymnasmata for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series. Professor Gibson received a B.A. in Classics from Rhodes College and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University.