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CURRICULUM VITAE
JO-ANN RUTH SHELTON
Education
UC Berkeley, PhD, Classics, 1974
UC Berkeley, M.A., Classics, 1968
University of Manitoba, B.A. (Hons), Classics and English, 1966
Academic Appointments
2008 - Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
1986-2008 Professor, Classics, UCSB
1979-1986 Associate Professor, Classics, UCSB
1975-1979 Assistant Professor, Classics, UCSB
1972-1975 Lecturer, Classics, UCSB
Administrative Appointments
1997-2001 Chair, Environmental Studies Department, UC Santa Barbara
1989-1992 Associate Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, UCSB
Publications
Books
The Women of Pliny's Letters (Routledge 2012).
As the Romans Did, 2 nd edition (revised and expanded). Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hercules Furens. The Madness of Hercules. Coronado Press, 1991.
As the Romans Did. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Seneca's Hercules Furens: Theme, Structure and Style. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978.
Articles and Reviews
"Spectacles of Animal Abuse," in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and
Life (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 461-477.
"Decline of Paganism, Rise of Christianity: Why Christianity Became the Dominant Religion."
World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. 20 Jan. 2014.
Review of Fabio Tutrone, Filosofi e animali in Roma antica: Modelli di animalità e umanità in
Lucrezio e Seneca. American Journal of Philology 134 (2013), pp. 709-713.
"Tuer les animaux qui ne cadrent pas: les dimensions morales de la restauration d'habitats,"

translation of 2004 article, in Sentients des villes, sentients des champs, http://sentientslibres.blogspot.fr/2013/06/
Review of Margo DeMello, ed., Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies across the
Disciplines. Anthrozoos 24 (2011), pp. 104-106.
"The State and the Family," in A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family in
Antiquity (Berg 2010), pp. 115-131.
Review of Thomas McGinn, Widows and Patriarchy: Ancient and Modern. Classical
Bulletin 85 (2010), pp. 47-49.
"Exotic Species," in The Encyclopedia of Animal Welfare (Greenwood 2010), pp. 230-
236.
“Beastly Spectacles in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” in A Cultural History of
Animals in Antiquity (Berg 2007), pp. 97-126.
“Exotic Species,” in The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (Greenwood
2007), pp. 345-352.
“Animals in Ancient Roman Arenas,” in The Encyclopedia of Human-Animal
Relationships (Greenwood 2007), pp. 887-891.
Review of John Heath, The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals and the Other. American
Journal of Philology 127 (2006), pp. 603-607.
Review of A. Schiesaro, The Passions in Play: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan
Drama. Vergilus 52 (2006), pp. 216-221.
“Elephants as Enemies in Ancient Rome.” Concentric 32 (2006), pp. 3-25.
Review of S. Armstrong and R. Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader. Anthrozoos 18
(2005), pp. 434-440.
“Putting Women in Their Place: Gender, Species, and Hierarchy in Apuleius’
Metamorphoses,” in Defining Gender and Genre in Latin Literature (Peter Lang 2005), pp.
301-329.
Review of B. Severy, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire.
Classical Outlook 82 (2005), pp. 157.
“Dancing and Dying: The Display of Elephants in Ancient Roman Arenas,” in
Daimonopylai (University of Manitoba Press 2004), pp. 363-382.
“Killing Animals that Don’t Fit In: Moral Dimensions of Habit Restoration.” Between the

Species (2004).
Review of S. E. Phang, The Marriage of Roman Soldiers. Classical Outlook 80 (2002), pp.
40-42.
“Seneca the Younger,” in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Salem Press 2001), pp.
999.
“Seneca the Elder,” in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Salem Press 2001), pp. 999-
1000.
Review of W. Fitzgerald, Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. American
Journal of Philology 122 (2001), pp. 599-604.
“The Display of Elephants in Ancient Roman Arenas.” ISAZ Newsletter 21 (2001), pp. 2-6.
“The Spectacle of Death in Seneca’s Troades” in Seneca in Production (Classical Press of
Wales 2000), pp. 86-118.
“Elephants, Pompey and The Reports of Popular Displeasure in 55 B.C.,” in Veritatis
Amicitiaeque Causa (Bolchazy-Carducci 1999), pp. 231-271.
Review of M. J. Dobson, Food in Antiquity. Religious Studies Review 25 (1999), pp. 78-
79.
“The Contributions of Ancient Greek Philosophy to the Modern Debate about Animal
Use,” in Ancient Greece and the Modern World (University of Patras Press, 1998), pp.
85-93.
“Shooting Sheep to Save Sagebrush: The Violence of Habitat Restoration.” Electronic
Green Journal, University of Idaho. Special Issue 9 (1998).
Review of J. Donald Hughes, Pan’s Travails: Environmental Problems of the Ancient
Greeks and Romans. Echos du Monde Classique 42 (1998), pp. 221-228.
“Feral Horses in a National Park: A Conflict of Values in Preserving Species,” in Our
Natural Environment: IEA Proceedings (1997), pp. 278-285.
“Family Matters: The Structure and Dynamics of the Ancient Roman Family.”
Laetaberis 11 (1996), pp. 1-27.
“Lucretius on the Use and Abuse of Animals.” Eranos 93 (1995), pp. 48-64.
“Contracts with Animals: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura.” Between the Species 11 (1995), pp.
115-121.

“Paradigm and Persuasion in Seneca’s Ad Marciam.” Classica et Mediaevalia 46 (1995), pp.
157-188.
Review of J. Masters, Reflections of Nero. Classical Philology 90 (1995), pp. 296-301.
Review of B. Rawson, Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Echos du
Monde Classique 37 (1993), pp. 517-521.
"Roman Spectacles," in From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome
(Michigan State University Press, 1990), pp. 221-236.
"Bread and Circuses: The Politics of Entertainment," in From Augustus to Nero: The
First Dynasty of Imperial Rome (Michigan State University Press, 1990), pp. 237-263.
"Pliny the Younger and the Ideal Wife." Classica et Mediaevalia 41(1990), pp. 163-186.
"Pliny's Letter 3.11: Rhetoric and Autobiography." Classica et Mediaevalia 38 (1987), pp.
1-19.
"Human Knowledge and Self-Deception: Creon as the Central Character of Sophocles'
Antigone." Ramus 13 (1985), pp. 102-123.
"Revenge or Resignation: Seneca's Agamemnon." Ramus 12 (1983), pp. 159-183.
"Structural Unity and the Meaning of Euripides' Herakles." Eranos 77 (1979), pp.101-
110.
"Seneca's Medea as Mannerist Literature." Poetica 11 (1979), pp. 38-82.
“The Dramatization of Inner Experience: The Opening Scene of Seneca’s Agamemnon.”
Ramus 6 (1977), pp. 33-82.
"Chariot Racing: Ancient Rome's Most Popular Spectator Sport." Chariot Racing World
5 (1976), pp. 9-17.
"Problems of Time in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Thyestes." California Studies in
Classical Antiquity 8 (1975), pp. 257- 269.