Joan Burton, PhD
Biography:
Joan B. Burton is director of the Individual Studies Program as well as the Federal Semester Program and the Global Semester in Washington, DC; she is also affiliate professor of classics at the University of Maryland. Burton was previously professor and chair of the Department of Classical Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio, and is now professor emerita. She received a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Burton is the author of
A Byzantine Novel: Drosilla and Charikles (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004),
Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage (University of California Press, 1995), and several articles and book chapters.