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Classical Studies Faculty Listing

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Professor Ruth Scodel, Chair

Academics and Requirements

 Professors

Sara L. Ahbel-Rappe, Hellenistic and classical philosophy, neo-Platonism, philosophy of language

Derek Collins, archaic Greek poetry, Latin literature, history of the classical tradition, religion

Sara L. Forsdyke, Greek historiography, Greek political thought and ideology, Greek orators, Greek law, Greek history

Bruce W. Frier (Henry King Ransom Professor of Law; John and Teresa D'Arms Distinguished University Professor of Classics and Roman Law), Roman law, Roman social and economic history, Hellenistic and Roman historiography and political science, ancient architecture, numismatics

Kweku A. Garbrah, Greek and Latin languages, comparative philology, epigraphy, early Latin tragedy

Sharon C. Herbert (John G. Pedley Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology & Greek), Greek archaeology, vase painting, Hellenistic Near East

Richard Janko (Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies), Greek language and literature (especially Mycenaean Greek, Homer and oral poetry), ancient literary criticism (especially Aristotle and Philodemus), comedy, Orphism and Greek religion, ancient manuscripts, textual criticism

Vassilios Lambropoulos (C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature), Modern Greek culture, the ancients and the moderns, ethics and politics, literature after cultural studies

Lisa Nevett, archaeology and iconography of domestic space in the ancient Greek world

David S. Potter (Arthur Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin; Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History), Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy

Christopher Ratté, Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture and urbanism, archaeology of Turkey

Ruth Scodel (D.R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin), Homer, tragedy, Greek literary criticism, ancient narrative

Nicola Terrenato, Roman Republican archaeology, Roman imperialism, early Rome, field survey method

Associate Professors

Basil Dufallo, Latin literature, epic poetry, Augustan poetry, literary theory

Benjamin Fortson, early Greek and Latin, history of Greek and Latin, comparative Indo-European linguistics, metrics and poetics, Roman comedy

Artemis Leontis, Comparative literature (especially classics and modern literatures), modern Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies, including Greek Americans

Francesca Schironi, Ancient scholarship and literary criticism, especially Aristarchus of Samothrace and Alexandrian scholarship; Greek science and technical languages; literary papyrology; reception studies

Celia Schultz, Roman religion, history and literature of the Roman Republic, Cicero, Livy

Arthur M.F.W. Verhoogt, Greek papyrology; socioeconomic, cultural and administrative history of Greek and Roman Egypt; Egyptian, Greek and Latin personal names; Fayum villages

Assistant Professors

Paolo Asso, Lucan, Greek and Latin epic, Latin poetry, mythology, history of Classical Scholarship

Ruth Caston, Latin literature, Augustan poetry, ancient rhetoric

J. Mira Seo, Ovid and post Ovidian epic, ancient literary criticism and culture, Hellentistic poetry

Lecturers

Netta Berlin, Latin literature, epic poetry, Augustan poetry, literary theory

Despina Margomenou, Modern Greek

Donka Markus, oral performance of literature in Rome, Latin pedagogy, teaching with technology, reading theory

Deborah Pennell Ross, Latin language and literature, linguistics

Gina M. Soter, pedagogy of Latin and Greek, Greek and Roman theater, classical tradition theater, women and gender in classical antiquity, religion in classical antiquity

Adjunct Professors

Victor Caston, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

David Halperin (W.H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality; Professor of English Language and Literature and Professor of Women's Studies),  history and theory of homosexuality, classical studies and its relation to contemporary cultural history, gay men's social practices and cultural identifications

Johanna H. Prins (Professor of English and Comparative Literature), Nineteenth-century poetry; history and theory of lyric; translation and reception of classics, comparative literature

Arlene W. Saxonhouse  (Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies), political theory, gender and politics, feminist theory

Raymond Van Dam (Richard Hudson Research Professor of History), Roman empire, late antiquity, early Christianity, history and anthropology

Adjunct Associate Professors

Lauren Talalay, Aegean prehistory, gender, Neolithic figurines

Visiting Professor

Dirk Obbink (Ludwig Koenen Collegiate Professor of Papyrology), Literary papyrology, lost books, fragmentary sources, Hellenistic philosophy, Lucretius and poetae docti, Greek lyric poetry, literacy

Professors Emeriti

Theodore V. Buttrey

H.D. Cameron (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Greek drama, linguistics, Greek orators, Plautus

Sally Humphreys, Anthropology of ancient societies, Greek law, history of religions

Ludwig Koenen (Herbert C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology), Papyrology, Greek and Latin literature, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, patristics, the history of religion

John G. Pedley, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, Greek sculpture, art and archaeology of Asia Minor and South Italy

David O. Ross, Jr., Latin literature, Hellenistic poetry, Latin textual criticism

James B. White, Greek literature, law, and rhetoric

Charles Witke, Catullus, Augustan poetry, Roman satire, medieval Latin literature, religion, Erasmus