John Gruber-Miller

Honors and Grants

• 2005 Project Director, “A World of Difference: Languages Cultures, and Human Rights,” a multi-cultural conference for Cornell and local area community, featuring more than thirty sessions and a Cultural Kaleidoscope for school children. Funded in part by a grant from Humanities Iowa.
• TIPS Grant to develop CAN-8 oral-aural exercises for Beginning Latin
• Director, "Rome on the Prairie: Conversations with Patricians and Plebeians," lecture series at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art funded by the Iowa Humanities Board, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and AMICI, the Classical Association of Iowa (1998-99)
• Core Faculty member of the VRoma Project, A Virtual Community for the Teaching of Classics (1997-)
• Participant, NEH Summer Institute, New Perspectives on Classical Antiquity, at the University of Arizona, 1996
• Participant, NEH Summer Institute, Sappho and Lady Mary Wroth, at the University of Maryland, 1994

Publications and Websites

• "Teaching Culture in Beginning Greek," CPL Online 4.1 (2008)
• Review of Ultralingua Dictionaries 6.0 (with Esperanza Román-Mendoza (coordinator), Francesca Puglisi, Nadia Rodríguez, Germán Ruipérez, Bettina Schnell). CALICO Journal 25.2 (2008).
• Editor. When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin. American Philological Association Classical Resources Series, No. 6. Oxford University Press, 2006. One can preview this book at Google Books. Stephen M. Trzaskoma's BMCR review is also available.
• “Exploring Relationships: Amicitia and Familia in Cicero’s de Amicitia,” Classical World forthcoming.
• “Developing Listening and Speaking Skills: Practical Ways to Implement the Standards with the Oxford Latin Course,” Classical Journal 101 (2005) 87-98 .
• "Seven Myths about Latin Teaching," Syllecta Classica 15 (2004) 193-215.
• Ariadne: Resources for Athenaze, a website designed to help beginning Greek students to integrate language and culture and to see the ancient Greek world through others' eyes: women, metics, slaves, non-Athenians, and non-Greeks.
• "How Do You Say MOO in Latin? Assessing Student Learning and Motivation in Beginning Latin," (with Cindy Benton) in special issue of CALICO Journal 18.2 (2001) 305-38 on Classics and Technology.
• Let's Review Greek!, a website designed for people who have studied 1-2 years (or more) of classical Greek and would like a way to maintain their skills and find reading material suitable to their level.
• Riley Collection of Roman Portraits, a website featuring portraits of emperors and senators, as well as men, women and children during the height of the Roman empire: images, descriptions, family trees, additional links and more (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art).
• Review of B.D. Hoyos, Latin: How to Read It Fluently, CANE Instructional Materials. Amherst, MA: Classical Association of New England, 1998, in Classical Outlook 78.2 (2001) 7.
• Review of Waldo E. Sweet, Jeffrey P. Lyon, and Robert P. Sonkowsky. Artes Latinae: A Comprehensive Self-Teaching Latin Series. Level 1. Version 1.1. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1998, in CALICO Journal (1999). Also available at http://astro.temple.edu/~jburston/CALICO/review/artlatin00.htm
• "Toward Fluency and Accuracy: A Reading Approach to College Latin," in Latin for the 21st Century, ed. Richard LaFleur (Addison-Wesley 1998) 162-75.
• Scriba, version 1.0, software to accompany the Oxford Latin Course, Part 1 (1994). Reviewed by Jeffrey Wills in NECN&J 23.1 (1995) 21-22.

Recent Presentations and Workshops

• “Hospitality as Pedagogy,” Keynote Address at Summer Latin Institute, Grand Valley State University, August 2007
• “Teaching Beginning Greek through Culture,” CAMWS, Cincinnati, April 2007
• "Writing to Read and Writing to Culture: The Interactive Reading Journal and First Person Epitome,” APA, San Diego, January 2007
• A Premium on Instruction,” CAMWS, Gainesville, April 2006
• "Ovid Metamorphosed: Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories," CAMWS, St. Louis, April 2004.
• "Seven Myths about Teaching Latin," plenary address at the symposium, "Latin Language Teaching in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring Fact and Fiction," University of Iowa, February 2004.
• "Developing Listening and Speaking Skills: Practical Ways to Implement the Standards Using the Oxford Latin Course," CAMWS, Lexington, April 2003.
• "Visit Ancient Rome Using the VRoma MOO: A Hands-On Workshop," CAMWS, Lexington, April 2003.
• "Through Others' Eyes: A Model for Making Greek Textbooks More Inclusive," with Cindy Benton, APA, Philadelphia, January 2002
• "Reading and Writing: Teaching Communicative Skills with Technology" (with Cindy Benton), Iowa World Language Association, Cedar Rapids, October, 2001
• "Empowering Intermediate Latin Students to Create an Interactive, On-Line Reader," CAMWS, Provo, UT, April 2001; repeated at Teaching with Technology Across the Liberal Arts, Grinnell College, June 2001
• "Six Assumptions about Language Teaching: One Teacher's Response," plenary address at Indiana Classical Conference, Wabash College, March 2001
• "Advice to the Next President: Lessons from Ancient History," Humanities-Arts Interest Group, Cornell College, January 2001
• "How Do You Say MOO in Latin? Assessing Student Learning and Motivation in Beginning Latin," (with Cindy Benton) APA, San Diego, January 2001
• "Bearded Men, Divine Women, and Precocious Children: Getting to Know the Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculpture," Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, September 2000.
• "MOO(v)ing in a Virtual World: Teaching Language and Culture Interactively," ACM Conference on Technology in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages, Beloit College, October 1999.
• "MOO: The Collaborative Website as Learning Environment," Coe-Cornell Technology Workshop, June 1999.
• "Learning Language and Culture Interactively in a MOO Environment," Iowa Connections Conferences, Newton, April 1999.
• VRoma Builders Workshop (Campus Martius), three-day workshop, funded by a Mellon Grant for Technology and VRoma, Cornell College, April 1999.
• "Making the Transition from Beginning to Intermediate Greek: Creating a Greek Reader with Students," CAMWS, Cleveland, April 1999.
• "Teaching with Technology," week-long workshop for Cornell College Language and Humanities faculty, funded by Mellon Grant for Technology, Cornell College, August 1998.
• "From the Roman Forum to the Steps of Armstrong Hall: Staging Plautus' Curculio," paper presented at a roundtable discussion on modern productions at the conference, "Crossing the Stages: The Production, Performance, and Reception, of Ancient Theater," University of Saskatchewan, October 1997.
• "Using VRoma," workshop for ACM/GLCA Classicists, Lake Forest College, October 1997.
• "Mapping the Terrain of Amicitia," CAMWS, Boulder, April 1997.
• "Roman Portraiture: Imago, Image, and Imagination," Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, February 1997.
• "Sappho and her Successors: Poet, Muse, or Lover?" Humanities-Art Interest Group, Cornell College, December 1996.
• "Feminist Approaches to Teaching Greek and Roman Theater," Conference on Sappho and Lady Mary Wroth: Integrating Women Writers of Classical Antiquity and the English Renaissance into the College Curriculum, College Park, MD, May 1995.
• "Teucer, Salamis, and Roman Cultural Identity," CAMWS, Omaha, April 1995.
• "Dramatic Advice: Lady Jane Lumley's Tragedie of Euripides called Iphigeneia," University of Iowa, April 1995.
• "Teaching Intensive, Evening, and Weekend Courses: Opportunities for Interactive Learning," APA, Atlanta, December 1994.
• "Changing the Subject: Cross-Dressing in Plautus' Casina," APA, Washington, D.C., December 1993.
• "Tempus Fugit: the Oxford Latin Course on an Intensive Schedule," CAMWS, Iowa City, April 1993.
• "Teaching Writing in Beginning Latin and Greek: Process vs. Product," APA, New Orleans, December 1992.

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