Faculty

Carol Dougherty

cdougher@wellesley.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classical Studies and Chair

Carol received her B.A. in Classics from Stanford University (1980), and M.A. from UC Santa Barbara (1982), and her PhD from Princeton University (1988).

Her research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of literature, history, politics and culture of the archaic and classical Greek world. She is the author of The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece (1993); The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic World of Homer's Odyssey (2000), and Prometheus (2006, a volume in the Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World series). She is the co-editor, together with Leslie Kurke of UC Berkeley, of two volumes of essays on culture in the ancient world (Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece and The Cultures within Greek Culture) as well as author of numerous articles on Greek literature and culture. She is currently working on a book project that looks at changing notions of the city of Athens (topographical, economic, political) as they are represented in Greek literature. She has received funding from the National Endowment for Humanities as well as the American Council on Learned Societies to support her research. At Wellesley, Carol teaches classes on classical mythology and the theme of travel in literature as well as in Greek language and literature.

Ray Starr

Theodora Stone Sutton Professor of Classics

Ray came to Wellesley in 1979, after receiving his BA from the University of Michigan in 1974 and his PhD from Princeton four years later.

Professor Starr teaches a wide variety of courses throughout the Latin curriculum and in Classical Civilization (courses in translation): ClCv 243: Roman Law; Latin 311: Roman Satire; and Latin 310: Roman Historical Mythology. He has published a variety of articles on various subjects, especially Vergil and the commentaries written in antiquity about his poems and the sociology of Roman literature, especially the circulation, reading, and teaching of literary texts in antiquity. Ray's current research explores literature, communication, and media studies as applied to Latin literature, especially political communication. He has received two fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies to support his research, Wellesley's Pinanski Prize and Apgar Award, and the Classical Association of New England's Barlow-Beach Award for Distinguished Service.

Kate Gilhuly

Associate Professor

Kate received her B. A. from Wesleyan University (1982) and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley California (1990).

Kate’s research and teaching have focused on gender and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece. At Wellesley, she has taught classes on Greek drama, gender in antiquity, and ancient mythology as well as Greek and Latin language classes. She is the author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens (2008). In addition, she has published two articles on Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans. During the academic year 2007-2008, Kate spent a sabbatical leave at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advancement of the Humanities working on a manuscript project entitled “Landscapes of Desire: The Erotics of Place in Classical Athens.”

Elizabeth Marie Young

Assistant Professor

I was lucky enough to read Apuleius, Horace and Vergil in high school and I have been smitten with Latin literature ever since. I majored in Classics at college and went on to receive my PhD in Comparative Literature, writing a dissertation on lyric translation that focused on the work and reception of Catullus.

Perhaps the best way to sum up my intellectual interests is to say that I am a poetry aficionada who is drawn both to the very old and the very new and explores the forces of recollection, appropriation, and transformation that connect the two. My research focuses primarily on Latin poetry and its afterlife, encompassing cultural studies, genre theory, reception and translation. I have published on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and presented papers on topics including Sapphic fragmentation, Ariadne as an oratorical heroine, and Virgilian miniaturization as a proto-Romantic sublime.

A book of my own poems titled Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize is due out in the Spring of 2009. These poems are resolutely modern (some might even say post-postmodern) but they do feature cameos from a cast of Greek and Roman characters ranging from Gaia, Cleopatra and Vesta to the shade of Ajax and Antigonus the One-Eyed.

Cashman Kerr Prince

cprince@wellesley.edu

Visiting Lecturer

I began studying English literature at Wesleyan University, but quickly gravitated towards Classical Studies. I was drawn both to the literature (especially ancient Greek) but also the ways this literature had been read and re-read over centuries by later authors. I went on to get a Ph.D. in Classics with a Ph.D. Minor in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, as well as a D.E.A. (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies) from Université de Paris - 8. My dual training in classics and comparative literature lets me continue my interests in classical literature and its later reception.

My research focuses on early Greek didactic poetry (primarily Hesiod, Parmenides, Empedocles, but also some of the early Orphic poetry); I'm completing a book on this subejct which is a revision of my Stanford dissertation. I have also written on Sappho and on a comic name for a sex-position in Aristophanes. In terms of classical reception studies, I have published articles on André Gide, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Derek Walcott, as well as a lengthy study of a late nineteenth century "fake translation" of ancient Greek lyric, called the Songs of Bilitis.

Bryan Burns

Assistant Professor

I decided to major in classical archaeology as an undergraduate (at UNC-Chapel Hill) because it combined coursework in numerous fields that I enjoyed: history, anthropology, art history, and languages. That meant shifting from Spanish to Greek and Latin; exploring new ways to think about images, objects, and cultures; plus learning to dig on my first excavation. Now I put those various skills to work in the field, the library, and the classroom.

My research is focused on the importance of long-distance exchange in early Greek culture, especially the Late Bronze Age. I’ve written a number of articles about trade and foreign interaction, and now a book titled Consumption and Competition in Mycenaean Greece. I also pursue the question of regional interaction through fieldwork and am co-director of an internationalsurvey project in Greece, the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project. Other scholarly interests guide my teaching and new research in the history of sexuality, uses of the past, and the development of archaeological method, theory, and imagination.

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