College of Arts and Sciences

J. D. Noonan is Associate Professor of Classics (Greek and Latin) with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has published work on a number of Latin authors (Catullus, Propertius, Vergil, and Livy among them) and on the Greek historian Thucydides. A forthcoming piece (1997) in the Canadian journal Phoenix presents the first full-fledged treatment of the medical or "healing" episode in Aeneid XII. Work in progress involves research on both Livy and Herodotus.

At USF continuously since 1977, Noonan has taught both Greek and Latin from the beginning level to courses at the 5000 level in the Affiliate M.A. program, as well as a variety of courses on Myth, Ancient Greco-Roman Civilizations, and Classical Literature in English translation. Noonan has also been awarded three fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities for post-doctoral study at Penn, Princeton, and Harvard.

Locally, Noonan has participated in FEH conferences on the US Constitution and on the theme "Florida for Floridians." He has also been a speaker at various public schools through Hillsborough County's SERVE organization, and has also lectured at various district and national meetings of the Junior Classical League and similar organizations. He is a member of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and the Vergilian Society, and he is an occasional contributor to the on-line Classics-L, Greek and Latin Discussion Group, housed at the University of