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Department of Classics


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Gareth Williams, Ph.D.

Dissertation Sponsors

Evangelos Calotychos:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1993
Interests: Balkanization, Demographics in Modern Greece
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eleanor Dickey:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1994
Interests: Historical linguistics, Epicureanism, Greek literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kathy H. Eden:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1980
Interests: Renaissance humanism, history of hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition, ancient and Renaissance literary theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Helene P. Foley:
(Barnard) Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
Interests: Archaic Greek Poetry; Greek Drama; Women in Antiquity; Greek Religion and Mythology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carmela V. Franklin:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1977
Interests: Medieval Latin literature; transmission of Greek and Latin texts in the Middle Ages; Latin hagiography; manuscript studies; the study of the Bible in the early Middle Ages; Bede; early medieval Rome.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Irwin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1999
Interests: Greek historiography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kristina Milnor:
(Barnard) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1998
Interests: Latin Literature of the late Republic and early Empire; feminist theory; Roman social history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Suzanne Said:
Professor, Doctorat, Paris, 1978
Interests: Greek Tragedy and Comedy; Greek Novel; Mythology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah Tarn Steiner:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1991
Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature; Greek Religion and Mythology; Epinician Poetry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Karen Van Dyck:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1990
Interests: Modern Greek culture; comparitive literature; feminist theory; translation theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Katharina Volk:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1999
Interests: Latin Poetry,esp. of the late Republic and early Imperial periods, Archaic Greek poetry; ancient astronomy and astrology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gareth Williams:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1990
Interests: Classical Latin Poetry, especially elegy; Silver Latin Poetry; Senecan Prose
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nancy Worman:
(Barnard) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1995
Interests: Greek and Roman rhetoric; archaic and classical Greek poetry; Augustan poetry; literary theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
James E.G. Zetzel:
Professor, Harvard, 1973
Interests: Latin literature; Hellenistic poetry; History of Classical Scholarship
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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