Jarrett Welsh
Campus: St. George
Jarrett Welsh earned a BA in Classics at Davidson College before completing a PhD at Harvard University. He has been in the department at Toronto since 2009, and is a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies and of University College.
His primary research interests lie in the areas of republican Latin literature and culture, including especially comedy and fragmentary texts of all sorts. The latter has necessitated a good deal of work on the scholarly texts of the imperial period, including lexicographical treatises, grammars, and commentaries, and much of his published work has focused on the methods of ancient scholars and how that information can be pressed into service for the editing of fragmentary texts. He hopes one day to finish a long-standing project of editing and commenting on the remains of the Latin fabulae togatae, if ever Nonius Marcellus allows.
Over the years that interest in ‘indirect’ transmission and a deeply sceptical persuasion have fostered an interest in direct transmission. His interests in this vein are principally, but not exclusively, the texts rediscovered by Italian humanists in the first decades of the fifteenth century. Ongoing projects touch on the textual traditions of Festus, Paulus Diaconus, Asconius, Nonius Marcellus, Rutilius Lupus, Aquila Romanus, and the Physiognomonia Latina.
Professor Welsh regularly teaches courses on Roman comedy, satire, and didactic poetry, and occasionally teaches Aristophanes or Menander in Greek. His graduate reading and research courses normally fall in the areas of Roman comedy and drama, republican literature, and textual transmission, and he is delighted to work with students on any of these subjects.
Education
- PhD, Harvard University
- MA, Harvard University
- BA, Davidson College
Research Interests
- Republican Latin literature, drama, and culture
- ancient scholarship
- Latin textual criticism
Publications
- “The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378–382 Ribbeck3 .” In Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle, ed. A. Keith and J. Edmondson, 203–220.
- Toronto, 2016. “Verse Quotations from Festus.” HSCP 108 (2015) 403–465. “Roman Women in the Fabula Togata.” In Women in Roman Republican Drama, ed. D. Dutsch, S. L. James, and D. Konstan, 155–170.
- Madison, 2015. “Singing the Sermo Comicus with Terence.” In Terence and Interpretation, ed. S. Papaioannou, 59– 74.
- Cambridge, 2014. “The ‘Fragments’ of Plautus’ Captiui.” In Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, ed. I Perysinakis and E. Karakasis, 151–164.
- Berlin, 2014. “How to Read a Volcano.” TAPA 144 (2014) 97–132. “Correcting a Stutterer in Afranius 215.”
- Mnemosyne 67 (2014) 100–107. “The Text of Ennius’ Portrait of a Parasite.” Phoenix 67 (2013) 107–118. “‘Weaving Spiders, Come Not Here’: Titinius 36 Ribbeck3 .”
- Mnemosyne 66 (2013) 784–790.“Some Fragments of Republican Drama from Nonius Marcellus’ Sources 26, 27, and 28.”
- CQ 63 (2013) 253–276. “No Rest for the Weary: Titinius 27 Ribbeck3 .” Mnemosyne 65 (2012) 741–745. “The Methods of Nonius Marcellus’ Sources 26, 27, and 28.”
- CQ 62 (2012) 827–845. “The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata.”
- HSCP 106 (2011 [issued 2012]) 125–153. “Afranius 95–96 Ribbeck3 .” Philologus 156 (2012) 181–187.
- “Com. inc. 51–5 Rib.3 : A Fragment of Afranius’ Priuignus?” CQ 62 (2012) 201–210.
- “Evanthius, De Fabula 3.5 and Varro on ἤθη and πάθη.” Hermes 139 (2011) 485–493.
- “Notes on the Text of Maximianus.” Exemplaria Classica 15 (2011) 213–224. “Accius, Porcius Licinus, and the Beginning of Latin Literature.” JRS 101 (2011) 31–50.
- “The Grammarian C. Iulius Romanus and the Fabula Togata.” HSCP 105 (2010) 255–285.
- “Quintilian’s Judgement of Afranius.” CQ 60 (2010) 118–126.
- “A Magister in the Togata: C. Iulius Romanus on EDIO FIDIO (Charisius p. 258.1–7).”
- Mnemosyne 63 (2010) 276–279. “A Fuller at the Quinquatrus: Novius, Virgo Praegnans I.”
- Eranos 104 (2006/2007 [issued 2009]) 117–119. “The Balli(o)starium: Plautus, Poenulus 200-2.”
- Mnemosyne 62 (2009) 94–99. “Plautus, Poenulus 16.”
- Hermes 135 (2007) 109–111. “Cato, Plautus, and the Metaphorical Use of Anulus.” Phoenix 60 (2006) 133–139.
- “The Splenetic Leno – Plautus, Curculio 216–45.” CQ 55 (2005) 306–309.