Education
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan.
He has published three books, Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004), and Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015). Corbeill received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Languages from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. In addition, he has held fellowships working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and All Souls College, Oxford.
Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), Nature Embodied. He is best known for his research concerning Roman literature and cultural history, as well as publishing articles concerning grammatical gender and gesture (such as the pollice verso, or which it has been argued that Corbeill "provides the most thorough review of").