Joey Lipp

The Ohio State University

Department of Classics
414B University Hall, 230 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

email: lipp.14@osu.edu
web: JoeyLipp.com

POSITIONS
Lecturer in Classics: The Ohio State University (2014-Present)
Latin Teacher: Columbus School for Girls (2015-Present)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Classics: The Ohio State University (2014)
Interdisciplinary Certificate in the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Post-Bacc. Study in Biblical Hebrew: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2006-2007)
B.A., Classical Humanities: The Ohio State University (2005)
AWARDS
Nominee, Provosts Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer (Ohio State Univ., 2016)
Competition currently (Nov. 2015) in semi-finals. Selection committee will identify finalists
in Dec. 2015.
Annually recognizes a maximum of three lecturers, senior lecturers or other auxiliary faculty
members from all Ohio State campuses for their teaching excellence.
Honorees are inducted into the Academy of Teaching and are recognized with an
honorarium from Ohio States Office of Academic Affairs.
Outstanding Faculty Award (Ohio State Univ., 2014)
Student-nominated and granted by the Residence on 10th and the Office of Student Life.
Recognizes valuable contributions to creating an extraordinary student experience.
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Classics for Citizens (JoeyLipp.com/blog)
Classics for Citizens is an educational initiative in the public humanities space that aims to
help people inside and outside of typical academic settings imagine themselves as citizens
using ancient Greek and Roman literature and philosophy. For the project I define a
citizen broadly as a fellow decision-maker, a community member with a voice and a vote.
Currently features a blog with an email subscribership, discussion groups, and institutionbased classes. Future projects include online and public lectures and published discussion
group materials. Considering possible collaboration with an OSU colleague and Imagine
America.
RESEARCH
Articles in Progress
Hope Without End: A Classicist Confronts the Eschaton (in preparation for Marginalia)
How to Transcend the Iron Age: Hesiod, Daniel, & Ovid on Possible Futures (in
preparation)

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Dissertation
Title: Imagining the Worlds End in Ancient Greece
Committee: Carolina Lpez-Ruiz (director), Anthony Kaldellis, J. Albert Harrill
Analyzes mythic, scientific, and philosophical accounts of the worlds end in early Greek
literature, from Homer to Aristotle.
Explores the heuristic limits of the concept eschatology for Archaic and Classical literature
and philosophy, since eschatology is derived from other fields.
Creates a dialogue among discourses about eschatology to demonstrate meaningful
differences and similarities among ancient sources.
Suggests questions and avenues of future research about eschatology and early Greek
materials. Such research topics include ideas of temporality, ancient Greek and Roman
responses to communal crises (especially imperial domination), and sources of future hope
for individuals and communities.
LANGUAGES
Ancient Greek and Latin (full reading and teaching competency)
Biblical Hebrew (reading competency)
Modern French and German (reading competency)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY LEVEL
The Ohio State University (2008Present)
LANGUAGE COURSES
Greek: Attic Prose
Latin: Elementary (reading method with Cambridge Reading Latin)
Latin: Elementary Accelerated (grammar-translation method with Moreland & Fleischer)
Latin: Summer Workshop for Graduate Students
Classical Background of Scientific Terminology (online)
LITERATURE & HISTORY COURSES
Greek Civilization: Life of the Athenian Citizen
Taught 50 undergraduates of diverse majors a course on the life of the Athenian citizen in
Classical Greece with a thematic emphasis on democracy.
Compelled critical engagement with ancient and modern democratic debates by reading
scholarly essays devoted to questions of modern American democracy.
Won an Outstanding Faculty Award for my teaching in this course.
Roman Civilization: Citizens & Despots
Taught 25 undergraduates of diverse majors an introductory course on Roman civilization
with a thematic emphasis on citizenship.
Facilitated student growth in deliberative abilities through student-led SPQR debates on
questions pertaining to the needs, challenges, and identities of ancient Roman and modern
American citizens.
Introduced students to fundamental persons, events, and problems in the study of Roman
history through units such as art & architecture, Roman philosophical and historiographical
literature (reading whole literary texts), an extended reading of Edward Gibbons History, and
spotlights on specific historical phenomena including Romes mixed republican constitution,
the Augustan revolution, and Diocletians economic reforms of the third century.
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Classical Mythology: Telling Stories with a Point

Taught (twice) 725 undergraduates of diverse majors an introductory level course on Greek
and Roman mythology, with a thematic emphasis on the rhetorical aspects of myth-making.
Introduced students to the most influential myths and their makers through reading stories
wholly contained in literary works such as Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiods Theogony and
Works and Days, Virgils Aeneid, and Ovids Metamorphoses, in selections of ancient Greek and
Roman rationalizing philosophers, and through one contemporary American folk opera
(Anais Mitchells Hadestown).
Led a team of 4 TAs, who help with grading and interfacing with the students.
Sports & Spectacles in the Ancient World
Taught (twice) 50 undergraduates of diverse majors once in a semester-length course in an
intensive, four-week format and a regular, 15-week format and once in a typical 15-week
semester, both covering Greek and Roman athletics from Archaic Greece to Imperial Rome.
Utilized a multi-media approach to engage students interest in the ancient cultures with
primary texts in translation, photographs and videos on Powerpoint, and a private class tour
of Ohio Stadium, The Ohio State Universitys football stadium, which imitates the Flavian
Amphitheater and Hadrians Pantheon.
Encouraged students to think critically about contemporary issues in college athletics and
ethics by focusing on the ancient debates about athletics and ethics through readings in
Pindar, Plato, and Tertullian, and also by reading articles about college athletics in the United
States.
Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Taught 15 undergraduates of diverse majors an intermediate-level course on Greek, Roman,
and Christian religious identities in the ancient world, ca. 100 AD 600 AD.
Introduced students to the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean and to the religious
conflicts between pagans and Christians through units on Greco-Roman religiophilosophical discourses, Jewish and Christian apocalyptic eschatology, Pliny & 1 Peter in
Bithynia-Pontus, Celsus & Origen, Constantine, Julians Against the Galileans and educational
reforms, and Justinians Christianizing legislation.
Provided students with a framework for thinking about religion in and beyond the ancient
Mediterranean context, into their own lives and worlds.
Compelled student engagement on the religious aspects of human phenomena through small
group discussions and short, written assignments about pagan and Christian religious
identities and conflicts.
SCHEDULED TO TEACH SPRING 2016
Honors Introduction to Classical Literature
Course enrollment is capped at 30.
Greek and Roman Epic
Course enrollment is capped at 25.
Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Course enrollment is capped at 45.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE: MIDDLE & SECONDARY

Columbus School for Girls: Latin Teacher (2015-Present)
Teach 7th and 8th grade Latin for an ethnically diverse cohort of middle school girls.
Collaborating with the upper school Latin teacher to develop both the linguistic and cultural
aspects of the Latin curriculum.
Designed and implementing a Roman-based system of money for classroom management.
Independent Educator (2015-Present)
Teach Latin to students of various ages, from 9 years old up to 40 years old.
Support homeschool families with Latin and other academic subject areas.
Designed and implemented a course of study in Latin for an 8th grade student enrolled in a
public school district so that the student can earn foreign language credit for the
independent Latin course with me.
Utilize web-based communication and a personal website (JoeyLipp.com) to give lessons
while out of town, for example, Skype, Facetime, and Google Docs, and to keep students
and parents informed.
Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools: Alternative Instructor (2006-2008)
Provided specialized instruction in all subject areas for at-risk middle and high school
students in an alternative educational environment (a two-story house across from main
school campus).
Collaborated closely with the students regular classroom teachers, as well as with parents to
tailor education, address IEP requirements, and respond to personal crises.
Tutored individual students in preparation for the Ohio High School Graduation Exam.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Grad. Student Rep. for Center for the Study of Religion: The Ohio State University (2012-2014)
Elicited suggestions from graduate students about speakers, conferences, and other events of
the Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University.
Collaborated with Center affiliates on scheduling events.
Participated in planning sessions devoted to budgets and goals of the Center.
Co-Director, 11th Annual Graduate Colloquium in Classics: The Ohio State University (2013)
Designed and implemented a colloquium for graduate students focused on the theme of
hospitality titled Hospitality and ???, co-directed with Laura Marshall.
Coordinated transportation, room, and board for graduate student speakers.
Recruited Daniel Caner, Associate Professor of History and Classics, University of
Connecticut, to give a keynote address on ancient monasticism and hospitality.
Philological Editor of Aetia Website Project: Stanford University (2011)
Implemented design of a website devoted to the study of Callimachus fragmentary Aetia.
Collaborated with colleagues involved with the project at Stanford University and The Ohio
State University.

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REFERENCES
Carolina Lpez-Ruiz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Director of Graduate Studies
The Ohio State University
lopez-ruiz.1@osu.edu
Anthony Kaldellis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Classics
The Ohio State University
kaldellis.1@osu.edu
J. Albert Harrill, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
The Ohio State University
harrill.5@osu.edu
Fritz Graf, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Classics
Director of Epigraphy
The Ohio State University
graf.65@osu.edu

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