Dr. Scott DiGiulio

Assistant Professor

1300 Lee Hall

Education

Ph.D. in Classics, Brown University (2015)

A.B. in Classics, Harvard University (2009)

Joined CMLL in:

2016

Spring 2023 Office Hours: Monday 9:00am-10:00am; Wednesday 3:00pm-4:00pm; and by appointment

Scott studies the intersection of Roman literature, scholarship, and readers; his primary research focuses on Latin prose literature, especially antiquarian miscellanies and their reception of earlier Greek and Roman historical, literary, and philosophical material. His current monograph project, "Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire: Aulus Gellius and the Imperial Prose Collection," explores the compositional techniques and authorial strategies of Gellius’ miscellany in its Roman and Second Sophistic contexts. Scott’s broader research interests include Second Sophistic literary and intellectual culture, prose of the Roman Empire (especially collected literature), and the intersection of epigraphy and literary texts. Since 2014, he has served as the project manager for the US Epigraphy Project, and was a member of the research team for the recently concluded international project "Visible Words: Research and Training in Digital Contextual Epigraphy."

Research Interests

Roman imperial literature
Intellectual culture of the High Roman Empire
Miscellaneous literature
Ancient reading practice
Digital epigraphy

Teaching Interests

Latin literature
Greek literature
Roman history
Ancient drama
Ancient mythology

Notable Awards

Donald Zacharias Early Career Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Mississippi State University, 2022
Loeb Classical Library Fellowship, 2021
College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award (Humanities), Mississippi State University, 2021
Schillig Special Teaching Projects Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Mississippi State University, 2021
Research Scholarship for Young Researchers, Fondation Hardt, 2017
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference Grant, with I. Kuin (University of Groningen), and J. Arthur-Montagne (High Point University), 2015
Fellow, Venice International University Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, 2013-2014

Recent Publications

Edited Books

DocuMentality: New Approaches to Documents in the Roman Empire. J. Arthur-Montagne, S. DiGiulio, and I. Kuin, eds., Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 132 (De Gruyter 2022). (http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791914)

Articles and Chapters

“Dead Letters, Documentality, and the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius,” in DocuMentality (J. Arthur-Montagne, S. DiGiulio, and I. Kuin, eds.) (2022): 181-208. (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791914-008)

“The Compiler Compiled: Didymus in Imperial Scholarly and Miscellanistic Literature.” In T. R. P. Coward and E. E. Prodi, eds., Didymus and Greco-Roman Learning, BICS 63.2 (2020): 79-94. (http://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaa018).

“Reading and (Re)Writing the Auctores: Poliziano and the Ancient Roman Miscellany,” Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures 4 (2020): 33-58. (http://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.vi4.16470).

“Gellius’ Strategies of Reading (Gellius): Miscellany and the Active Reader in Noctes Atticae Book 2.” Classical Philology 115.2 (2020): 242-264. (http://doi.org/10.1086/708236)

“Monumenta rerum ac disciplinarum? Varro’s Reception in Gellius’ Noctes Atticae.” American Journal of Philology 139.2 (2018): 311-341. (https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2018.0015)