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Email william.dominik@otago.ac.nz

Academic qualifications

PhD, Monash University
MA, Texas Tech University
BA, University of the Pacific
Tchg Cred, University of the Pacific
Cert IES, University of Durham

Background and research interests

Professor Dominik arrived at the beginning of 2002 to take up the Headship of Classics, which he held until the end of 2009. Previously he was Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Natal. Presently he is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Otago and Invited Full Professor, Integrated Researcher, and Director of Classica in the Centre for Classical Studies at the University of Lisbon.

Professor Dominik has lectured widely in Classics and the Humanities at a number of other universities, namely Texas Tech University, University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, Federal University of Bahia, University of Cambridge and Monash University for periods ranging from one semester to three years.

He has also held Commonwealth Fellowships in the United Kingdom and Australia and Visiting Research Fellowships at the University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford. His main areas of research specialisation are Roman politicised literature, especially of the imperial era; Roman rhetoric; the classical tradition/reception; and lexicography.

CV (including publications)

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Publications

Dominik, W. J. (2024, February). Exemplarity in the representation of Achilles in late antique Latin poetry. Verbal presentation at the 45th Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Dominik, W. J. (2023). The classical ‘Traception’: Reconceptualizing Classics in Africa (with an analysis of Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island). International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12138-022-00636-4 Journal - Research Article

Dominik, W. J. (2022). Domitianic literature and its intertexts [Review of the book Domitian's Rome and the Augustan legacy]. Classical Review, 72(2), 545-548. doi: 10.1017/S0009840X22000658 Journal - Research Other

Dominik, W. J. (2021). [Review of the book Silius Italicus' "Punica": Rome's war with Hannibal]. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 10, 39. Retrieved from https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.10.39 Journal - Research Other

Dominik, W. J. (2019). Silius Italicus on the Battle of Cannae [Review of the book A commentary on Silius Italicus’ Punica 10]. Exemplaria Classica, 23, 231-242. doi: 10.33776/ec.v23i0.3780 Journal - Research Other

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