Jack mitchell

Biography

Dr. JACK MITCHELL is affiliated to Department of Classics , Dalhousie University. Dr. JACK MITCHELL is currently providing services as Associate Professor, Roman History. Dr. JACK MITCHELL has authored I145and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented works at many national and International conferences. Dr. JACK MITCHELL contributions have acclaimed recognition from honourable subject experts around the world. Dr. JACK MITCHELL is actively associated with different societies and academies. Dr. JACK MITCHELL academic career is decorated with several reputed awards and funding. Dr. JACK MITCHELL research interests include The principal focus of my research has been on the role of the ancient canon in Roman literary education, and particularly on how the tradition of literary performance survived there and influenced the approach taken by ancient scholars in their analysis of classic texts; this was the subject of a long article I published in the American Journal of Philology in 2015, and I have also written about how literary performance can condition our perception of Suetonius' Twelve Caesars as protagonists of his biographies.  I have also contributed to the theory of translation, using Gerard Manley Hopkins as a lens through which to understand the culturally embedded character of compound epithets in traditional oral poetry (focusing on Bacchylides), and on William Morris as an illuminator and translator of Virgil.  Finally, as I began scholarly life as a Homerist, I have examined the "bardic" nature of the soothsayer Theoclymenus' role in the Odyssey..

Research Interest

The principal focus of my research has been on the role of the ancient canon in Roman literary education, and particularly on how the tradition of literary performance survived there and influenced the approach taken by ancient scholars in their analysis of classic texts; this was the subject of a long article I published in the American Journal of Philology in 2015, and I have also written about how literary performance can condition our perception of Suetonius' Twelve Caesars as protagonists of his biographies.  I have also contributed to the theory of translation, using Gerard Manley Hopkins as a lens through which to understand the culturally embedded character of compound epithets in traditional oral poetry (focusing on Bacchylides), and on William Morris as an illuminator and translator of Virgil.  Finally, as I began scholarly life as a Homerist, I have examined the "bardic" nature of the soothsayer Theoclymenus' role in the Odyssey.