Emily Albu Associate Professor of Classics emalbu@ucdavis.edu 716 Sproul (530) 752-2739

Member of the UC Davis faculty since 1996

Teaching Interests:
Latin and Greek language and literature; film and the classical world; medieval literatures and societies

Research Interests:
Norman historical writing; religions, literatures, and societies in the twelfth century; Byzantium and the west; the classical tradition


Grants and Fellowships, Honors and Awards:

2000-2001	UC Davis Faculty Development Award
2000	N.E.H. Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome
1999-2000	Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, UC Davis
1997	Bethell Prize, Charles Homer Haskins Society
1997-1998	Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute
1994-1995	Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
1994	N.E.H. summer stipend
1990	Lilly Endowment research grant
1989-1990	Boston University Humanities Foundation grant
1977-1979	Bunting Institute Fellowship, Radcliffe College
1967-1972	N.D.E.A./Ford Fellowship
1967	Phi Beta Kappa

Education:

1975 Ph.D.	University of California at Berkeley
	Comparative Literature (Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek,Old French /Old Provençal)
1969 M.A.	Comparative Literature (Latin / German)
1967 B.A.	College of Wooster (Latin / Greek)

Recent Publications:

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

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

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

1998: Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd ed., with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana Robert. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998; 113-202. (6 chapters corrected and slightly revised from the 1991 Macmillan edition).

1995: "Scandinavians in Byzantium and Normandy," in Peace and War in Byzantium:
Essays in Honor of George T. Dennis, S.J., ed. Timothy S. Miller and John Nesbitt (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press), 114-122.

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

1994: "Dudo of St.-Quentin: The Heroic Past Imagined," The Haskins Society Journal 6; 111-118.

1994: "Predatory Friendship: Evidence from Medieval Norman Histories," in The Changing Face of Friendship, Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 15 (Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press; 115-129.

Work in Press:

"Robert Guiscard," entry for encyclopedia, Medieval Italy, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (Garland).

"The Normans and their Myths," for The Haskins Society Journal 10 (1998).

Selected Recent Lectures and Panels:

"Crusading Chronicles and the Peutinger Map" International Medieval Congress at Kalamazo, MI; 6 May 2001.

"Gladiator: America's Rome in Film" San Francisco State University; 22 March 2001.

"The Peutinger Map: A Fourth-Century Itinerary Map?" Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference IV; San Francisco State University; 9 March 2001.

"Rollo as Literary Figure" Haskins Society Conference; Cornell University; 29 October 2000.

"Mapping the World of Late Antiquity: Geography and Community" Seminar on "The World of Late Antiquity: Religions, Peoples, and Politics at the End of the Roman Empire;" Area 3 History and Cultures Project; UC Davis; 14 October 2000.

"Disarming the Hero in Late Antiquity: Fulgentius on Arms and the Man," Conference on Heresies and Orthodoxies: Regulating Identities in Late Antiquity; UC Davis; 11 May 2000.

"Normans and Wolves in the Bayeux Tapestry" Medieval Association of the Pacific; Victoria, BC; 25 February 2000.

"Normans in the Bayeux Tapestry: One Mystery Solved" Haskins Society session at Kalamazoo; 8 May 1999.

"Trojans and Romans in Norman Histories" American Philological Association; Washington, D.C.; 29 December 1998.

"Teaching Film and the Classical World" California Classical Association / Northern Section; 16 May 1998.

"Devils and Wolves: The Normans in their Histories" UC Historians Seminar, Huntington Library, 28 February 1998; UC Davis Humanities Institute, 9 May 1997; and Sources and Source-Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Paul J. Alexander, Berkeley, December 1995.

(winner of the Bethell Prize) "The Normans and their Myths" Haskins Society Conference; Houston; 7 November 1997 "Sicily and the Norman Frontiers" Conference on Frontiers and Borderlands in History and Memory; University of Maryland at College Park; 4 April 1997.

"Bohemond and the Rooster: Byzantines, Normans, and the artful Ruse" UCLA Byzantinists Symposium; Los Angeles; 20 April 1996.

"Anna Comnena and the Women of the Alexiad" Vryonis Center; Sacramento; 19 January 1996; and for Cross-Cultural Women's History group; UC Davis; 6 December 1995.

"Disarming the Hero in Late Antiquity: Fulgentius on Arms and the Man" American Philological Association; New York; 28 December 1995.

"The Women of the Alexiad" Twenty-first Annual Byzantine Studies Conference; New York University; 10 November 1995.

"Vates Novus: Norman Histories and the Classical Tradition" International Society for the Classical Tradition; Boston; 10 March 1995.

Co-organizer and co-chair of session: "Constructing the Family in Late Antiquity" American Philological Association; Atlanta; 28 December 1994.