Name Anthony Corbeill | Role Professor | |
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Books Nature Embodied, Controlling laughter, Sexing the World: Grammati | ||
Anthony Philip Corbeill is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He has published three books, Controlling Laughter. Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), Nature Embodied. Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004), and Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015). He is best known for his research concerning Roman literature and cultural history, as well as publishing articles concerning grammatical gender and gesture (such as the pollice verso, or which it has been argued that Corbeill "provides the most thorough review of").
Corbeill received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Languages from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. In addition, he has held fellowships working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and All Souls College, Oxford. In January 2016, he won the Society for Classical Studies' Goodwin Award for his work on Sexing the World.