Roman and Greek Art and Archaeology. Latin Texts. Pompeii. Ancient Technology. Mythology in Classical Art.

• The Art & Archaeology of Ancient Greece (CLAS 133a)
  
• The Art & Archaeology of Ancient Rome (CLAS 134b)
  
• Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology (CLAS 145b)
  
  Roman Technology and Art (or How to Think like the Romans)
  Athens and the Golden Age of Greece
  Jews in the Graeco-Roman World
  Mythology in Greek and Roman Art
  New Ways of Seeing Ancient Art through Gender and Sexuality
  Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Greek and Roman Text and Art
  
• Pompeii: Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius (CLAS 150a)
  
• Roman Decadence: Latin Literature in Translation (CLAS 165a)
  
  Selected Readings from Lucretius, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Petronius, Suetonius, among others
  
• Intermediate Latin: Literature (LAT 30a)
  Selected Readings from Apuleius, Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Juvenal
  
• "Greeks Bearing Gifts" into the Future: Classical Myths Told and Retold (USEM 24a)
  
  Selected Readings from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Petronius, and O'Neill

Pompeii and Herculaneum: Daily Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2006).

The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Water, Sewers, and Toilets. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (forthcoming, 2006).

Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City. Colloquium and Conference Papers Series of the Archaeological Institute of America, No. 3, Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 2001.

Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology, co-ed. Claire Lyons. Revised reprint (paper), London: Routledge Press, 2000.

Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology, co-ed. Claire Lyons. London: Routledge Press, 1997.

The Sarno Bath Complex: Architecture in Pompeii's Last Years. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1990.

Office: Rabb 128

Office Hours (Fall 2008): TF 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., and by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2183

Email: aoko@brandeis.edu

Associate Professor Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow became department chair in 2003. She took her Master's degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and her doctorate there in Classical Art and Archaeology. She is our ancient art historian and archaeologist; her solid training in Latin and Greek, however, gives both breadth and depth to her scholarship and pedagogy.

Professor Koloski-Ostrow has published a monograph on a bath structure at Pompeii: The Sarno Bath Complex: Architecture in Pompeii's Last Years (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1990), and is co-editor and a contributor to Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (London: Routledge Press, 1997; paper, 2000), and she is sole editor and contributor to Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City (Dubuque: Archaeological Institute of America, 2001).

Her current research project explores ancient sanitation and the archaeology of water use, sewers, and toilets in Roman Italy. Her book on this topic is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She is also writing a book called Pompeii and Herculaneum: Daily Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius for Cambridge University Press. She regularly leads summer archaeological tours around the Bay of Naples and Pompeii for the Vergilian Society of America. She has been a visiting Assistant Professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

At Brandeis she teaches the Art and Archaeology of both Greece and Rome along with courses in Latin language and literature and University Seminars in the Humanities. She also teaches a variety of 'topics' courses including 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome,' 'The Golden Age of Athens,' and 'Mythology in Greek and Roman Art.'

Professor Koloski-Ostrow was recently awarded a grant from the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects to assist her in her current work on the domestic wall paintings of Pompeii. She has received several awards for her teaching: the 2006 Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring; the 1997-1998 Perlmutter Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research; and the 1988-1989 Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The American Philological Association awarded her its North American Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1997-1998. Professor Koloski-Ostrow was a Bunting Fellow (1994-1995) at Radcliffe Colleage and a Senior Research Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-2002).

Photograph of Ann Koloski-Ostrow by Brandeis Campus Card Office.

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