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Gwendolyn Compton-Engle, PhD

Professor - Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures

eMail

gcomptonengle@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-1969

Location

O'Malley Center 120

Employee Type

Faculty

Office Hours

Spring 2023:

M: 2:00-4:00 pm

W: 10:00 - 11:00 am

TH: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

F: 10:00 - 11:00 am

Drop-ins welcome.

Professor of Classics

Expertise: Greek drama; Greek and Latin language and literature

Biography

Dr. Compton-Engle teaches Latin and Greek language, literature, and culture. Recent courses include Classical Drama in English, Power and Identity in the Roman Republic, and Readings in the New Testament. Dr. Compton-Engle particularly enjoys introducing students to Latin and Greek in beginning language classes. She began teaching at John Carroll in 2002 and served as the Director of the University Core Curriculum from 2010-2013. In that capacity, she co-chaired the curriculum committee that created the current Integrative Core Curriculum. She chaired the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures from 2017-21.

Dr. Compton-Engle’s research focuses on Greek drama, especially the performance of comedy and its relationship with tragedy in the late fifth century and early fourth century BCE. Her article “Control of Costume in Three Plays of Aristophanes” won the Gildersleeve Prize from The American Journal of Philology.

Select Recent Publications:

“Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’ Auge at Philyllius Fr. 4.” Classical Philology 116.4 (2021), forthcoming.

“Male Stage-Nudity in Aristophanes.” Illinois Classical Studies 45.2 (2020) 399-423.

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

“The Blind Leading: Aristophanes’ Wealth and Oedipus at Colonus.” Classical World 106.2 (2013) 155-170.

Degrees

Ph.D., Cornell University
B.A., St. Olaf College