Juana Celia Djelal
Departments of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS), English & Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University
112 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802-5500
Telephone: (814) 865-6418 
Email: jcd9@psu.edu

1998–Present Senior Lecturer in Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University

1998 Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma

1992-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma
 
1991-92 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma

1992 Purdue University, Ph.D.

2003   Erasmus Award, Department of Comparative Literature, (In recognition of Undergraduate Teaching; student nomination)

CAMS 045: Classical Myth
CAMS 045H: Classical Myth Honors Section
CAMS 297H: Classical Literature and its Avatars

Recent Courses in English

English/Women’s Studies 194: Women Writers
English 133: U.S. Literature between WW I & WW II
English 200: Introduction to Critical Reading
American Studies 100M: Introduction to American Studies

Recent Courses in Comparative Literature

Comp Lit 001U: Introduction to Western Literature through the Renaissance—Honors Section

Comp Lit 400W: Western Literature through the Renaissance

Recent publications:

 “The Shape of the Whale: Flukes and Other Tales.” Leviathan, A Journal of Melville Studies,7.2 October 2005. 47-53.

“Lessons on Landing: Odysseus and Aeneas.” In Interruptions: Essays on the Poetics/ Politics of Space, Eastern Mediterranean University Press, ed. Lorraina Pinnell, 2003.

Entries and Introductions to Pindar, “Processional Song: On Delos”; “Homeric Hymn to Apollon”; Lucian, A True History. In Beyond the Floating Islands, eds. Stephanos Stephanides and Susan Bassnett. A COTEPRA Reader, Sub-project 7: “Theory and Praxis of Literary Translation.” University of Bologna, 2002.

Review Article: Douglas Robillard, ed. The Poems of Herman Melville. Kent, OH: Kent State UP. Melville Society Extracts, Summer 2002.

“Melville’s Poetic Compass.” The CEA Critic. 63:1, Fall 2000. 61-70.Invited paper for a special issue on “Literature of the Sea.”

Book in Progress:

A study of Greek and Roman myths. Near completion.

Conference Paper:

“Trans/Plantation: Sowing Unsustainability”, International American Studies Association (IASA) 3rd World Congress: Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation. Lisbon, Portugal,20-23September 2007.