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Professor Bowditch received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1992. She has been at the University of Oregon since 1993 and has taught a wide range of language and literature courses on epic, tragedy, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and the Augustan era.
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Her research focuses on the interface between the literature and socio-political relations of antiquity, with a particular emphasis on literary patronage and issues of gender and sexuality in the Augustan poets. She is currently writing a book on love elegy and Roman imperialism. She is the author of Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Los Angeles and Berkeley 2001) and of articles on Ovid, Propertius, Horace and issues of translation. Recent publications include: “Hermeneutic Uncertainty and the Female Subject in Ovid’s Art of Love,” in eds. R. Ancona and E. Greene, The Gendered Dynamics of Latin Love Poetry (Baltimore 2005) 271-295; “Propertius 2.10 and the Eros of Empire,” in eds. H. Haskell and P. Thibodeau, Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam on the Occasion of his Seventieth-Birthday (Afton Historical Society Press 2003) 163-180.
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