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CURRICULUM VITAE

ADRIAN CHRISTOPHER STUART SAUNDERS

PERSONAL DETAILS

NATIONALITY: British

DATE OF BIRTH: 22. xii. 1958

GENDER: Male

MARITAL STATUS: Single

HEALTH: Excellent

PASSPORT: UK issue. No. 761074462

CONTACT ADDRESS: Koç Űniversitesi,

İnsani Bilimler ve Edebiyat Fakültesi

Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi Bölümü

Rumelifeneri Yolu

34450 Sarıyer, Istanbul.

TELEPHONE: +90538 018 72 69 (mobile)

E-MAIL: acssaunders@

asaunders@ku.edu.tr

EDUCATION

1969 – 1975 Ardingly College, Sussex, England. 8 ‘O’ Levels.

1975 – 1977 Exeter School, Exeter, Devonshire, England.

3 ‘A’ Levels, 2 ‘S’ Levels. Latin, Greek, Ancient History.

Open Scholarship in Literae Humaniores to Brasenose College, Oxford.

1978 Internship, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum.

1978 – 1982 Honour School of Literae Humaniores, University of Oxford. BA (1982); MA (1985).

1978 – 1990 Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society

1990 Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults.

EMPLOYMENT

1978 Internship: British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals

1982 – 1986 Dragon School, Oxford, England. Assistant Master: Classics (Scholarship), Divinity, French, English. Resident House Tutor, Form Master.

1986 – 1990 St. Edward’s School, Oxford, England. Assistant Master: Latin, Greek and Ancient History (to Oxford Scholarship level), Modern History, Divinity. House Tutor.

1990 – 1997 The British Council, Cairo, Egypt: General English Teacher, Commercial English Needs Analysis, Business English, FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS, Literacy Classes for Beginners in English, English-Arabic Translation.

1992 City University Cairo, Egypt (Affiliated to City University, Seattle, Washington State): Adjunct Professor, Humanities: Art History, Film Studies.

1993 -1994 Private classes in Latin and Greek for Cairo University students.

1993 -1998 The American University in Cairo, Egypt: Adjunct Professor, History of Art (with special reference to the Ancient, Classical and Byzantine Periods).

1998 – 2004. The American University in Cairo, Egypt: Full Time Faculty, The Freshman Writing Program (Rhetoric), Department of Performing and Visual Arts (Art History – as above). Core Seminar Tutor and Lecturer.

2005 – 2006. Research Project, Epigraphy. Ephesus, Selçuk Turkey

2006 - Instructor, Latin and Greek. Koç University, Istanbul

2010 - Instructor, Latin, Greek, Classical Arabic. Koç University, Istanbul.

LANGUAGES

Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Turkish, Anglo-Saxon. Coptic.

GENERAL INTERESTS

Literature, Fine Arts, Theatre, History, Music, Travel, Walking, Skiing, Natural History.

OTHER

Member of the International Advisory Board, Crisler Library and Institute, Ephesus.

Curatorial Consultant. Erimtan Vakfın Müzesi. Ankara.

ACADEMIC AND RELATED WORKS.

Plautus Rudens: Translation for the Golliards Theatre Group. 1978

Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae: Translation . St. Edward’s School Drama Society. 1988.

‘Wagih Abaza: Visions and Perspectives.’ Editor and Translator from Arabic. Cairo 1994

‘Movement in the Theatre as a Means of Cross Cultural Communication.’

Co author with Indji el Solh. Cairo University Conference on Experimental Theatre. 1995.

Review articles for the Egyptian Press 1990 – 2005

‘Gilgamesh: ‘He Who Saw the Deep’’. Public Lecture for the American University in Cairo.

2000.

‘The Serpent and the Ship: Late Antique Constantinople and the Rhetoric of Space.’

Paper for the American University in Cairo, Department of Comparative Religion

Conference: Cairo to Calcutta. Space and the Sacred. 2005.

‘Ephesus: The Stones Speak.’ Lecture for the Crisler Library in Ephesus. 2006

Graffiti and the Crisis of Conscience in Early Christian Ephesus. Lecture. Ephesus. 2006

Form and Meaning in the Ayasoluk Mosque of Isa Bey.

Crisler Library International Summer School. Selçuk 2010.

Dionysius Mythistoricus: Storytelling and History on the Bosphorus.

Paper given at conference, Istanbul and Water. Istanbul 2010.

The Sinope Bilingual Revisited. (forthcoming).

LITERARY WORKS

Collected poems of Orhan Veli Kanik. Translation.

Collected poems of Ahmet Arif. Translation.

Selected Greek Lyrics. Translation.

Polis. Landscapes from a Memory of Desire. Original Poetry.

DRAMATIC WORKS

Co-director. The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum 1983.

Director. Henry V. William Shakespeare. 984.

Author and Director. ‘Who Stole the Tarts” 1985

Author and Director. “Jonas: A Modern Miracle” 1986

Director. ‘The Fire Raisers’ Max Fritsch. 1987

Translator and Director. “Men Beware Women” (Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae). 1988.

Director. Attila. Giuseppe Verdi. 1989.

Author. “Octahedron” An Experimental Dance Work based on the Babylonian Creation Epic. 1995

Festival Director. “Famous For 15 Minutes New Plays Festival.” Cairo – Beirut. 1997 – 2005.

COURSES TAUGHT.

Latin, Greek and Ancient History at all Levels, including Oxford Scholarship Examination.

Classical Civilisation

French – all levels.

English Literature. GCSE and A Level

Divinity. GCSE and A Level.

Modern History - GCSE.

Art History – Ancient Art. Undergraduate

The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Undergraduate.

Introduction to Film Studies. Undergraduate.

English as a Foreign Language. All levels

TOEFL Examination Preparation.

Introduction to English-Arabic Translation.

Rhetoric and Composition. Undergraduate.

Core Curriculum Studies.

Introduction to New Testament Greek. Adult Course. Ephesus.

Latin 1 and 2. Koç University. Graduate.

Greek I, 2 and 3. Koç University. Graduate.

Epigraphy Seminar. Koç University. Graduate.

Greek 4. Byzantine Text Seminar. Graduate.

The Celsus Library Inscriptions. Seminar for Leipzig University.

Seminar on Mediaeval Arabic Travel Literature. Koç University.

Advanced Arabic Texts – The Egyptian Short Story.

Summer Course: Graeco-Roman Byzantıum.

Advanced Latin Text seminar – Ancient and Mediaeval.

Conducted field trips to: Egypt – Luxor, Islamic and Coptic Cairo, Old Kingdom Necropoleis, Oases of the Western Desert, Sinai; Rome and the Bay of Naples – Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae; Ostia Antica and Tivoli; Greece – Peloponnese, Athens, Central Greece, Macedonia – Thessaloniki; Turkey – Lycia, Ionia – Epigraphic study trips to Ephesus, Claros, Priene, Miletus, Didyma, Hierapolis, Aphrodisias, Laodicea, Gerga, Alabanda, Labranda, Alinda and other sites.

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