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Debbie Felton
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1995

533 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003

413.545.5780 office
413.545.6995 fax

felton@classics.umass.edu

Personal Web Page / Course Information

Research Interests
Classical mythology; folklore in classical literature; classical tradition

Recent Publications
Accepted. Felton, D. "Monstrosity or Disability? Ancient Accounts of Accelerated Ageing," Folklore.

Forthcoming, 2012. Felton, D.  Entries for The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. Ashgate Publishers:
"Bates, Norman"
"Blob, The"
"Cerberus"
"Fly, The"
"Horla, The"
"Hydra"

In press, to appear January 2012. "Embracing and Rejecting the Monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome," in The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Asa Mittman and Peter Dendle.

Forthcoming, Nov. 2011, in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger Bagnall et al.:
   "Cannibalism" (with David Warburton)
   "Demons, Judaism"
   "Teeth"

2010. "An Early Roman Analogue for the 'Shoe My Foot' Stanzas?" Folk Music Journal 11.1: 123-130.

2010. "Scary Stories and Tales of the Dead." Iris, Autumn 2010, issue XIII: 17-21.

2010. "Why Alexander Founded Alexandrias, Not Athens(es)." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO. Web. 10 Sept. 2010 <http://ancienthistory2.abc-clio.com/>.

2009. Review of Derek Collins, Magic in the Ancient Greek World (Blackwell, 2008; xiv, 207 pages). Bryn Mawr Classical Review Online 8/30/2009: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-08-67.html.

2009. Review of Daniel Ogden, In Search of the Sorcerer?s Apprentice: The traditional tales of Lucian?s Lover of Lies (The Classical Press of Wales 2007; 310 pages). New England Classical Journal 36.2: 137-140.

2008. Review of Paul Murgatroyd, Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature (Duckworth 2007; x, 200 pages). New England Classical Journal 35.2: 145-148.

2007. Review of Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard, eds, Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (Oxford 2006; xiv, 445 pages). Journal of Folklore Research online 12/12/07 http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=376.

2007. The Dead. Daniel Ogden (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to Greek Religion, 86-99. Oxford: Blackwell Press.





 
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