Tina Passman is an American

classical scholar Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, who is Emeritus Associate Professor of Classical Language and Literature at the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...

. Alongside

David Halperin David M. Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is the cofounder of '' GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', and author ...

, Passman was one of the first co-chairs of the Lesbian and Gay Classical Caucus, now

Lambda Classical Caucus Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise ...

, which was founded in 1989. She studied for her BA, MA and PhD in Classics at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...

. Her research interests include women in the ancient world, multiculturalism, community building and inclusion. She pioneered online teaching and the adoption of universal design in her field. Passman has voiced interpretations that recognized a "patriarchal voice" in the ''

Homeric Hymn to Demeter The ''Homeric Hymns'' () are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', ...

.'' In 1993 her article "Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics" was published which discussed the neglect of America's first woman classicist, Jane Harrison, and tied that neglect to an unpopularity of lesbian perspectives in the field. However, her perspectives on both matriarchy and Jane Harrison were challenged in by

Simon Goldhill Simon David Goldhill, FBA (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and culture and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. He was previously Director of Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sc ...

who described her views as "uncritical".

Awards

* 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine.

Selected publications

* Passman, Tina, and Ravonne A. Green. "Start with the syllabus: Universal design from the top." ''Journal of Access Services'' 6.1-2 (2009): 48–58. * Passman, Tina, "Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics", in Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Amy Richlin, ''Feminist Theory and the Classics''. ''Thinking gender''. London: Routledge, 1993. * Tina Passman, “Re (de)fining Woman: Language and Power in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” in ''Woman’s Power, Man’s Game: Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. King'' edited by Mary De Forest, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (1993) 54–77. * Passman, Kristina M. "The Classical Amazon in Contemporary Cinema." ''The Bucknell Review'' 35.1 (1991): 81.

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