About the Author

Since earning a PhD in Comparative Literature from The University of California at Berkeley, Victor Udwin has taught at Berkeley, The University of Siegen (Germany), The University of California at San Diego, and The University of Tulsa. His course offerings range from Greek, Latin, German, and Old English language and literature to Honors: Ancient Greece, Honors: The Middle Ages, and Gangster Films. Publications include a dissertation and articles on theory, the book Between Two Armies: the place of the duel in epic culture (Brill, 1999), an article on Pulp Fiction, and a forthcoming chapter "Teaching and Learning Classical Literature Through Mapping" in Reading and Teaching the Classics.

The author may be contacted at victor-udwin@utulsa.edu.