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Department of English
Dr. Austin Busch
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 207D
(585) 395-5829
Email: abusch@brockport.edu
Education
B.A., San Francisco State University, Comparative Literature (1997)
M.A., Indiana University, Comparative Literature (2000)
Ph.D., Indiana University, Comparative Literature and Classical Studies (2004)
Research Interests
New Testament and early Christian literature; biblical narrative; history of biblical interpretation; Roman imperial literature (esp. Seneca and Statius); epic tradition; tragic tradition; Coptic Gnostic literature; literary theory.
Major Publications
The English Bible: A Norton Critical Edition , Vol. 2: New Testament and Apocrypha. Co-editor with Gerald Hammond. (Forthcoming from W. W. Norton & Co.)
“Presence Deferred: Exodus 3, Acts 3, and Divine Names.” Biblical Interpretation. (Forthcoming.)
“The Dissolution of the Self in the Senecan Corpus,” in Seneca and the Self, eds. Shadi Bartsch and David Wray (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 [in press]).
“Versane natura est? Natural and Linguistic Instability in the Extispicium and Self-Blinding of Seneca’s Oedipus.” Classical Journal 102 (2007): 225-67.
“Questioning and Conviction: Double-voiced Discourse in Mark 3:22-30.” Journal of Biblical Literature 125 (2006): 477-505.
“The Figure of Eve in Romans 7:5-25.” Biblical Interpretation 12 (2004): 1-36.
Shorter works/reviews
“Deification, Greek.” Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Ed. Stanley Burstein. New York: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming.)
Review of Brad Inwood, Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters, Translated with and Introduction and Commentary (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007) in Exemplaria Classica. (Forthcoming.)
Awards and Honors:
Mellon Foundation Grant for Research Leave, Stanford University, Winter Quarter 2006
Institute for Biblical and Literary Studies Graduate Fellowship, IU, 1997-2001
Office for Women’s Affairs Eva Kagan-Kans Graduate Research Paper Award, IU, 2000
Gilbert V. Tutungi Award for Best Comparative Literature Master’s Project, IU, 2000
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, San Francisco State University, 1996
Harry Berger Scholarship in World and Comparative Literature, SFSU, 1994
Courses taught at Brockport:
Bible as Literature
Bible and Modernity
Ancient Christianity (for Liberal Studies Program)
Seminar in World Literature: Jesus and the Gospels
World Literature I: Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Epic
Greek and roman Poetry: Roman Epic and its Renaissance Influence
Classical Mythology
Introduction to Literary Analysis
Critical Approaches to Literature
International Fiction
College Composition
