Ellen E. Perry
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Ellen Eva Perry (born c. 1966) is an American classicist who serves as the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor of the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She served as the president of the Classical Association of New England (CANE) from 2014 until 2020.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Perry is a native of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where she majored in Greek with a minor in Latin, graduating in 1987.[2] Afterwards, she enrolled at the University of Michigan, obtaining a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology.[3] Her dissertation was published in 1995 and was titled "Artistic imitation and the Roman patron with a study of imitation in the ideal sculptures of Herodes Atticus".[4]
Academic career[edit]
From August 1997 until May 1997, Perry was a professor at the University of Evansville in Indiana. Later in 1997, she joined the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross, receiving tenure in 2004. She was elevated to a full-time professorship in 2017, and received the college's appointment as its Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professor in 2021.[1]
Perry is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.[1] She was also a program chair at the Archaeological Institute of America.[5]
On April 3, 2020, she delivered the Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, hosted by Case Western Reserve University.[6]
Selected publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Perry, Ellen E. (2005). The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome. Worcester, MA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521831659.
Journals[edit]
- Perry, Ellen E. (2000). "Notes on Diligentia as a Term of Roman Art Criticism". Classical Philology. 95 (4). University of Chicago Press: 445–458. doi:10.1086/449511. JSTOR 270516.
- Perry, Ellen E. (2001). "Iconography and the Dynamics of Patronage: A Sarcophagus from the Family of Herodes Atticus". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 70 (4): 461–492. JSTOR 3182055.
- Perry, Ellen E. (2002). "Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, and the Roman Aesthetics of Artistic Imitation". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 1: 153–171. doi:10.2307/4238450. JSTOR 4238450.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Three Holy Cross Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships". Holy Cross Magazine. College of the Holy Cross. July 19, 2021. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ^ "Alumni with Graduate Degrees in Classics and Related Fields". Swarthmore College. 2014-07-08. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Faculty | Ellen E. Perry". College of the Holy Cross. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ^ Perry, Ellen (1995). Artistic imitation and the Roman patron with a study of imitation in the ideal sculptures of Herodes Atticus (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. hdl:2027.42/129560.
- ^ Perry, Ellen (2015-09-21). "News | Program Highlight from Ellen Perry, Chair of the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art". Cleveland Art. Vol. 60, no. 2. Cleveland Museum of Art. 2020. p. 46. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
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