Education

• Ph. D. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (dissertation, Worshiping Diana: The Cult of a Roman Goddess in Republican Italy, directed by Jerzy Linderski)
• M.A. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• B.A. University of Texas at Austin

Research and Teaching

Dr. Holland's research interests include Roman and Greek religion, Greek and Latin literature, Literature and Material Culture of the Roman Republic, and Latin Epigraphy and Paleography. Dr. Holland's teaching interests include a range of topics in Greek and Latin literature and religion, as well as ancient Persia and modern Iran.

Biography

Dr. Holland is advisor for The UNC-Asheville Classical Society and for the UNC-Asheville Eta Tau chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics Honorary Fraternity. She is on the APA Advisory Board for the American Office of L'année philologique, serves as CAMWS VP for North Carolina, is on the Committee for the Promotion of Latin (CPL), and is a member of the editorial board of the New England Classical Journal. Dr. Holland also teaches an early summer Latin Paleography class to interested students as part of the joint Classics-Philosophy Collaboration on the international Henry of Ghent project for which Philosophy Prof. Gordon Wilson is General Editor. For more information on this project please see Undergraduate Research.

Work in Progress

• book on Roman religion under contract
• book chapter for Wiley-Blackwell's forthcoming A Companion to Women's Studies, eds. Sheila Dillon and Sharon James
• entries for Wiley-Blackwell's forthcoming Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. Roger Bagnall et al.

Publications

• 2009 (forthcoming): Review of Religion of the Romans, Jörg Rüpke, translated and edited by Richard Gordon. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. The Classical Review 59.2
• 2008: "Diana Feminarum Tutela?: The Case of Noutrix Paperia" in Collection Latomus, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Vol. XIV, 95-115.
• 2008: "Last Act in Corinth: The Burial of Medea’s Children (E. Med. 1378-83)" CJ 103.4: 405-428.
• 2008: "A Day with Diana" invited article in Iris magazine, Issue 6 Summer 08 (UK Iris Project)
• 2008: "Euclio’s Solitary Slave: Staphyla in Plautus’ Aulularia," NECJ 35.1: 21-30.
• 2007: Review of Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (Nancy T. de Grummond, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006), NECJ 34.3, p. 262-265, August
• 2006: Review of Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (Celia Schultz, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), NECJ 34.2, pp. 156-158, May
• 2006: Review of The Religion of the Etruscans (eds. Nancy T. de Grummond and Erika Simon, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006) NECJ 33.4, p. 417-419, November
• 2005: "Plutarch's Aemilius Paullus: the Model of a Philosopher Statesman," 269-279, in The Statesman in Plutarch's Works: Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives, (ed. Lukas de Blois et al. Brill, 2005) (review available online)
• 2004: Review of The Oxford Classical Dictionary of Myth and Religion (eds. Simon Price and Emily Kearns, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) NECJ 31.4, pp. 437-39, November
• 2003: "Pas domos erroi: Myth and Plot in Euripides' Medea" TAPA (2003) 133: 255-279

Recent Papers

• 2009: (to be presented) "What's in a Name? Polyonymous Nomenclature and Ummidius Quadratus" CAMWS, Minneapolis, MN, April Abstract available online
• 2008: "Medieval Date Rape in the Carmina Burana?" CAMWS, Tucson, AZ, April 16-18 Abstract available online
• 2008: "Titillation under the Tilia Tree: Medieval Date Rape?" (invited) Women’s History Month "Fascinating Faculty" Academic Festival, UNC-Asheville, March
• 2008: "O Sister Where Art Thou? Same Name Divine-Pairs in Roman Religion,"APA, Sunday, January 6, Section 65, Chicago. Abstract available online (in pdf; scroll down to "Lora L. Holland" in the list)
• 2007: "Medieval ‘Date Rape’ in the Carmina Burana?: Benzodiazepines and the Linden Tree Flower" Science and the Humanities Conference, UNC-Asheville, October 17-19
• 2007: "Plautus Menaechmi 210-211: Greek or Roman Meats?" CAMWS, Cincinnati OH April (abstract available online)
• 2006: "Reading Medieval Latin Manuscripts: Living the Humanistic Ideal in the 21st Century" CAMWS-Southern Section, November, Memphis, TN. (abstract available online)
• 2006: "Livy and the Aventine Sanctuary of Diana in Archaic Rome," CAMWS, April, Gainesville, FL (abstract available online)
• 2005: "'Nothing to do with Aristodemus?': the Late Archaic Triple Diana from Lake Nemi," APA conference, January 9, Boston (abstract available online)
• 2005: "'Mysteries' of Diana's Cult at Lake Nemi in the Nottingham Collection," CAMWS, March 31, Madison, WI (abstract available online).

News

Dr. Holland was awarded a 2008 NEH Summer Seminar for Colleges and Universities slot in "Identity and Self-representation in the Sub-Cultures of Ancient Rome" at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. The seminar was directed by Profs. Eleanor Leach of Indiana University and Eve D'Ambra of Vassar College. Dr. Holland's summer in Rome is profiled in Verve Magazine--"Vitae"
http://www.vervemag.com/journal/2008/5/19/vitae.html. (On site in Rome with the she-wolf and twins in the Capitoline Museum... )