Faculty Fellows

Humanities and Social Sciences

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Biographies

Jeri DeBrohun (Classics)

Jeri DeBrohun's primary research interests are Hellenistic and Latin poetry, with special emphasis on Republican and Augustan poetry at Rome. Her first book, Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (The University of Michigan Press, 2003) was a study of Propertius Book 4. Recent articles include "Centaurs in love: Cyllarus and Hylonome in Ovid Metamorphoses 12.393-428," American Journal of Philology 125 (2004) 417-52, and "Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64,” in Marilyn Skinner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Catullus (Blackwell, Oxford, 2007). Jeri also has an interest in Cultural Studies, and she is currently writing a book on "Greco-Roman Dress as an Expressive Medium." Jeri regularly teaches undergraduate courses in Latin Love Elegy, Latin Lyric, plus (in translation) Greek Tragedy and Ancient Utopias and Imaginary Places. Graduate seminars taught by her include Roman Satire, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid's Exile Poetry, Lucretius, Greek and Roman Epigram, and Senecan Tragedy. Jeri has been a CAP adviser each year since she arrived at Brown. In addition, she was the Graduate Adviser and Director of Graduate Studies for Classics from 1997-2007.

Jan Tullis (Geological Sciences)

Jan Tullis came to Brown in 1970, after an A.B. at Carleton College and Ph.D. at UCLA; she finds that Brown combines the best of both - the resources of a major research university but the valuing of teaching and the sense of community of a liberal arts college. Her research, funded primarily by NSF, involves high temperature and pressure laboratory experiments on the grain-scale mechanisms by which rocks are able to 'flow' in the solid state at depths of ~10-50 km in the crust. She particularly enjoys teaching undergraduate courses; for many years she co-taught the physical geology course aimed at liberal arts students, and more recently has been co-teaching the course aimed at science students; she also teaches the concentrators’ course in Structural Geology. She enjoys freshman CAP advising, sophomore advising, and is the head geo concentration advisor. Recently she was honored to be appointed as a Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and a Faculty Advising Fellow. She has been a geo faculty liaison to the Sheridan Center for many years and has run her department's program for orienting and training new TAs. Over the years she has learned a great deal about teaching from her students, from her undergrad and grad TAs, from the geo faculty with whom she has shared courses, and certainly from the Sheridan Center.