Patrice Rankine
American classics scholar
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Patrice Rankine's Degrees
- PhD Classics Stanford University
- Masters Classics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Patrice Rankine is a Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is a leading scholar in the area of classical reception. Early life Patrice Rankine was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York on September 25, 1971. Son of Jamaican immigrants, he spent his pre-school and first school years in Kingston, Jamaica, before returning to Brooklyn in 1979. He attended public schools in New York City and studied photography at South Shore High School, working with photographer Mitchel Grey during his senior year. Accepted at School of Visual Arts for matriculation in September, 1988, he instead attended Brooklyn College, where he shifted to the study of Ancient Greek. He graduated from Brooklyn College in June, 1992 and attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1992 to 1998, where he earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Classical Languages and Literatures. He was member of the inaugural class of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship . Rankine was one of the first 100 PhDs that the program produced and also attended the 25th anniversary of the program in June, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Patrice Rankine's Published Works
Published Works
- Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature (2008) (28)
- African American Writers and Classical Tradition (2012) (24)
- Passing as Tragedy: Philip Roth's The Human Stain, the Oedipus Myth, and the Self-Made Man (2005) (22)
- Dignity in Homer and Classical Greece (2017) (20)
- The world is a ghetto (2015) (19)
- Black Apollo? Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization , volume iii, and Why Race Still Matters (2011) (17)
- The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (2015) (11)
- Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience (2013) (5)
- Odysseus as Slave: The Ritual of Domination and Social Death in Homeric Society (2011) (4)
- The Classics, Race, and Community-Engaged or Public Scholarship (2019) (3)
- Cartographies of Resistance: Poetics and Politics of Space in Chicano/a Writing (2004) (2)
- Afterlife: Du Bois, Classical Humanism and the Matter of Black Lives (2018) (2)
- Ulysses in Black (2006) (1)
- Black is, black ain't: Classical Reception and Nothingness in Ralph Ellison, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka (2012) (1)
- 12.03.03, Looney, Freedom Readers (2012) (0)
- “Why interview the artists? It’s almost like, no, let’s wait ’til they’re dead and then we can talk about them.”—Peter Meineck (2015) (0)
- Afterlife: Du Bois, Classical Humanism and the Matter of Black Lives (2018) (0)
- The Body and Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison’s Novel in Twenty-First Century Performance and Public Spaces (2016) (0)
- (B.E.) Goff ‘Your Secret Language’: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Pp. 239. £70. 9781780932057. (2015) (0)
- Classics for All? (2020) (0)
- The Shock of Recognition (2015) (0)
- Epic Performance through Invenção de Orfeu and An Iliad (2018) (0)
- Orpheus and the Racialized Body in Brazilian Film and Literature of the Twentieth Century (2011) (0)
- The World is a Ghetto:’ Postracial America(s) and the Apocalypse (2015) (0)
- From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel (2016) (0)
- Helen—Queering the Barbarian (2022) (0)
- Gregory A. Staley (ed.), American Women and Classical Myths (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009, $34.95). Pp. 282. isbn 978 1 932792 85 0. (2010) (0)
- On Remixing the Classics and Directing Countee Cullen’s Medea and Law Chavez’s Señora de la pinta (2015) (0)
- The Shock of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall’s Translation of Greek Drama for the Chicago Stage at Court Theatre (2015) (0)
- Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture by John Levi Barnard (review) (2019) (0)
- August Wilson and Greek Drama (2015) (0)
- Epic, the Oral Community, and the Memory of Emancipation in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth (2001) (0)
- Chafw Photoproduction at 20 Gev* Slac Hybrid Facility Photon Collaborat.ion (0)
- Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition: Transforming American Culture by Tessa Roynon (review) (2016) (0)
- Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin (review) (2022) (0)
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