Tina Passman

{{Short description|American classical scholar}}

Tina Passman is an American classical scholar, who is Emeritus Associate Professor of Classical Language and Literature at the University of Maine.{{Cite web|title=Tina Passman - The Honors College - University of Maine|url=https://honors.umaine.edu/people/tina-passman/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=The Honors College|language=en-US}} Alongside David Halperin, Passman was one of the first co-chairs of the Lesbian and Gay Classical Caucus, now Lambda Classical Caucus, which was founded in 1989.{{Cite web|title=Lambda Classical Caucus|url=https://www.lambdacc.org/officers.html|access-date=2022-02-22|website=www.lambdacc.org}} She studied for her BA, MA and PhD in Classics at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include women in the ancient world, multiculturalism, community building and inclusion.{{Cite web|title=ECP: NGSD - PA and ME UCEDDs Partner on Grant to Promote Disability as Diversity in Postsecondary Education|url=https://www.aucd.org/ecp/template/news.cfm?news_id=7327&start=1066&title&type=406&action=&topic=86&keyword=&parent=0|access-date=2022-02-22|website=www.aucd.org}} She pioneered online teaching and the adoption of universal design in her field.{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Judy|date=2011-04-15|title='Outstanding' UMaine faculty members recognized|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2011/04/15/news/bangor/‘outstanding’-umaine-faculty-members-recognized/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=Bangor Daily News|language=en-US}}

Passman has voiced interpretations that recognized a "patriarchal voice" in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.{{Cite book|last=Doherty|first=Lillian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OhF0BgAAQBAJ&dq=tina+passman&pg=PA41|title=Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth|date=2015-03-02|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4725-0239-1|language=en}} In 1993 her article "Out of the Closet and into the Field: Matriculture, the Lesbian Perspective, and Feminist Classics" was published which discussed the neglect of America's first woman classicist, Jane Harrison, and tied that neglect to an unpopularity of lesbian perspectives in the field.{{Cite book|last=Best|first=Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iu6kYHT6pYcC&dq=tina+passman&pg=PA208|title=Thamyris Vol 1.2|publisher=Rodopi|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Gold|first=Daniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gwDwAAQBAJ&dq=tina+passman&pg=PA197|title=Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion: Modern Fascinations|date=2003-06-10|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23614-1|language=en}} However, her perspectives on both matriarchy and Jane Harrison were challenged in by Simon Goldhill who described her views as "uncritical".{{Cite journal|title=Review of: Feminist Theory and the Classics|url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1994/1994.01.15/|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}