معرفی
R. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where he has taught since 2000. He also serves as Chair of the Faculty Senate and as Director of the January-term Study Abroad in Rome Program.
Education:
- Ph.D. Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000)
- A.M. Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.A. Classics, Mary Washington College (University of Virginia)
Research Interests:
Smith’s scholarship centres on ancient mythography—the ways Greeks and Romans collected, organised, and interpreted their own myths—and on the philosopher-poet Seneca the Younger. Current major projects include co-editing for Oxford University Press the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography and directing the digital-humanities platform Putting Greek Myth on the Map, which spatially links mythical figures to real-world locations.
Recent publications (2015-2022) range from detailed textual studies of Seneca’s tragedies and scientific prose to broad synthetic reviews of mythographic handbooks, reception studies of the Argonautic cycle, and cartographical explorations of Rome. Collectively these works trace a trajectory from micro-level philology to macro-level cultural geography, reflecting a sustained interest in how ancient narratives migrate across genres, media, and centuries.
Service & Outreach:
- President or Chair of multiple state and regional classics organisations
- Speaker for New Hampshire Humanities
- Director, UNH January-term Study Abroad in Rome Program
Labs & Teams:
Smith leads the Putting Greek Myth on the Map digital humanities research group, an interdisciplinary team of students, GIS specialists, and collaborating scholars creating interactive, geolocated mythological data for public and pedagogical use.
