Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Naomi Weiss

2013-14

In her dissertation, "Mousikē and Mythos: The Role of Choral Performance in Later Euripidean Tragedy," Naomi Weiss (Classics) examines the dramatic function of references to mousikē (music and dance) in the plays of Euripides, particularly in his supposedly "dithyrambic" choral odes.

Ellen Oliensis

2015-16

Professor of Classics Ellen Oliensis examines questions of erotics, authority, gender, and interpretation in Roman literature, especially the poets of the Augustan era.

Kathleen McCarthy

2017-18

Setting aside the idea that a poem can be reduced to a specific “message,” Kathleen McCarthy finds in Rome a rich landscape of poetic forms to explore the kinds of communication that can happen through poetry.

James Porter

2018-19
James Porter’s (Classics and Rhetoric) wide-ranging scholarship encompasses Greek and Roman aesthetics, literary criticism, philosophy, and ancient and modern cultural critiques. Currently, he is exploring the idea of Homer from antiquity to the present.
 

Andrew Wein

2020-21

Andrew Wein (Classics) examines the confrontation between high and low cultural traditions in the Greco-Roman World and its consequences for later political and aesthetic thought.
 

Joshua Benjamins

2021-22

Joshua Benjamins explores competing negotiations and articulations of the meaning of Rome and its identity as the Eternal City among pagan and Christian authors during the crisis years of the 390s – 410s AD.

Albert Lepawsky Fellow