Policy Statements

Katharina Volk Named Editor of TAPA
New Editor of Textbooks Series
New Supplementary Materials for Ramsey’s Sallust
APA Member Discounts to Oxford University Press Books

Katharina Volk Named Editor of TAPA

As Chair of the Search Committee, I am happy to report that Prof. Katharina Volk of Columbia University has accepted our invitation to become the next Editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association. Professor Volk is a distinguished and very productive scholar of ancient literature and its intersections with other aspects of ancient culture. Prof. Volk's term as Editor will run from January 9, 2010 to January 5, 2014. An announcement concerning the transition of responsibility from current Editor Paul Allen Miller to Prof. Volk and protocol for submission of manuscripts has been published on the web site and will appear in the Association Newsletter.

I want to thank the other members of the Search Committee (Kurt Raaflaub, Maria Pantelia, Peter White, and Adam Blistein) for their assistance in the completion of this successful search. I also very much appreciate the interest that the Committee saw from the other highly qualified candidates for this position. Finally, we are grateful to Department of Classics of Columbia for its support of the arrangements necessary to enable Professor Volk to accept this position.

James J. O'Donnell
Vice President for Publications

New Editor of Textbooks Series

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Sander Goldberg of the University of California, Los Angeles, to the position of Editor for Textbooks in the Division of Publications of the APA. Professor Goldberg has a long and distinguished record of scholarly achievement, beginning with important studies of Menander and Terence, but embracing Roman Republican literature in many ways and now extending to the relationship of Classical rhetorical theory to eighteenth-century musical practice. From 1991-1995 he served the APA as editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association. I am pleased that he has once more volunteered to give his time and talent to the Association and the profession. He will take up his responsibilities for a term of four years at the January 2009 meetings in Philadelphia.

Professor Justina Gregory of Smith College has served in this position since 2004 with remarkable energy and success, and I am pleased to thank her for the rigor she has brought to the task. Inevitably the work of a series editor for the APA is seen in full only in after years, when all the projects conceived and nurtured have come to light. I'm happy to commend members to look forward to some important works still to come, besides those published on her watch.

James J. O'Donnell

Vice President, Division of Publications

New Supplementary Materials for Ramsey’s Sallust

The APA and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce a major new addition to the companion Web site for the 2nd edition of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by John T. Ramsey (2007). The complete Latin text of the Bellum Catilinae as it appears in the printed edition is now available at http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195320855/?view=usa. The text is made available in two formats, which may be downloaded free of charge. The PDF file preserves the length of the lines in the printed edition, with notations of page numbers in the margin. The Word file will permit users to adjust the size of the font, line spacing, and width of margins to suit personal needs. By printing out either file, it will possible for the Latin text and commentary to be used side by side. In both files, brief headings in English have been added to make navigation of the Latin text easier. Please direct comments and corrigenda to the author at jtramsey@uic.edu.

James J. O'Donnell

Vice President, Division of Publications