Sander Goldberg

Professor
Greco-Roman Drama, Latin Poetry, Rhetorical Theory
Dodd 226B
310-825-8873
sander@humnet.ucla.edu

Sander Goldberg studied French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester before stumbling upon ancient Greek. After a brief foray into graduate school in Texas and an even briefer one teaching special education in Arkansas, he returned to graduate school in Classical Studies at Indiana University. As a Fulbright scholar at University College London in 1976-77, he studied papyrology with Sir Eric Turner and Greek comedy with Eric Handley and wrote a dissertation on Menander's dramaturgy.  He has been at UCLA since 1985, where he cultivates his reputation as an eccentric by riding a bicycle to work and running daily through Bel Air, where tourists occasionally mistake him for Steven Spielberg.

Professor Goldberg's current research centers on the developing idea of literature in the Roman Republic and, in partnership with Musicology Professor Tom Beghin (McGill), the relationship of Classical rhetorical theory to eighteenth-century musical practice.  Recent publications include Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic (Cambridge 2005) and with Tom Beghin, a forthcoming collection of essays, Engaging Rhetoric. Essays on Haydn and Performance (Chicago 2006).  From 1991-1995 he was editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association.