Katharina Volk
Associate Professor
Classics (Columbia)
E-mail: kv2018@columbia.edu
Phone number: 1-212-854-5683
Room number: 614 Hamilton
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 3-3:50pm and by appointment
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 2002) and Manilius and his Intellectual Background (Oxford 2009) and the editor of Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Eclogues (Oxford 2008) and Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Georgics (Oxford 2008), as well as (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 working on a monograph on Ovid to appear with Wiley-Blackwell and editing (together with Rolando Ferri and Mira Seo) a Festschrift for Elaine Fantham entitled Callida Musa, to appear as an issue of Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici.