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Emily Albu Associate Professor, Classics Program and History Graduate Program emalbu@ucdavis.edu 715 Sproul Hall (530) 752-2739

Member of the UC Davis faculty since 1996

Teaching Interests
Latin and Greek language and literature; film and the classical world; late antique / medieval literatures and societies.

Research Interests
Medieval historical writing; late / antique medieval travel, and the Peutinger map; the twelfth century; the classical tradition.

Education
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) 1975. University of California at Berkeley, M.A. (Comparative Literature) 1969. College of Wooster, B.A. (Classics) 1967.

Recent Publications

Books
Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, co-edited with H.A. Drake et al. (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006).

The Normans in Their Histories: Propaganda, Myth, and Subversion (Boydell and Brewer, 2001).

Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd ed., with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana Robert (Prentice Hall, 1998). Six chapters, slightly revised from the 1991 Macmillan edition.

Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare, ed. with Carter Lindberg (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994).

Articles and Reviews
Review of Kenneth Baxter Wolf, trans., The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of his Brother Duke Robert Guiscard, Speculum 81, no.3 (July 2006), 850-852.

"Imperial Geography and the Medieval Peutinger Map," Imago Mundi 57 (2005), 136-148.

"Probing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: The Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum," Anglo-Norman Studies 27 (2005), 1-15.

"Maps, Texts, and Travels in the Middle Ages: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6 May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI," with Natalia Lozovsky, AVISTA Forum Journal 14 (2004). 68-72.

"The Normans and Their Myths," Haskins Society Journal 11 (2003), 123-135.

Review of Jon Soloman, The Ancient World in the Cinema, in Classical World 96, no. 4 (2003), 454-5.

Review of David Rolfe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book, for The Medieval Review 2001 [http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/].

"Bohemond and the Rooster: Byzantines, Normans, and the Artful Ruse," in Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed. Thalia Gouma-Peterson (Garland, 2000), 157-168.

Review of Rob Helmerichs, website on the Planctus for William Longsword, 2000 [http://www.haskins.cornell.edu/PWLreviews.html].

"Teaching the Classical Tradition," with Michele Valerie Ronnick (American Philological Association, Educational Papers, 1999), 48 pages.

Grants and Fellowships, Honors and Awards
UC Davis Faculty Development Award (2000-2001)
NEH Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome (2000)
Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, UC Davis (1999-2000)
Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute (1997-1998)
Bethell Prize, Charles Homer Haskins Society (1997)
Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1994-1995)
NEH summer stipend (1994)
Lilly Endowment research grant (1990)
Boston University Humanities Foundation grant (1989-1990)
Bunting Institute Fellowship, Radcliffe College (1977-1979)
Phi Beta Kappa (1967)