Katharina Volk, Associate Professor of Classics, received her M.A. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (1994) and her Ph.D. from Princeton University (1999). While she specializes in Latin poetry of the late Republican and early Imperial periods, her wider interests include Archaic and Hellenistic Greek literature, ancient science (especially astronomy and astrology), poetics, and the history of ideas.

Volk is the author of The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius (Oxford University Press 2002) and the co-editor (with Gareth D. Williams) of Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (= Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 28; Brill 2006). She has published numerous articles on such topics as Homeric formula, Ovid's elegiac persona, cosmology in Manilius, eroticism in Vergil, and the pseudo-Vergilian Aetna poem.

Currently, Volk is finishing a book entitled Manilius and his Intellectual Background and editing Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, both to appear with Oxford University Press.