Emily Wilson
FAAR 2006-2007
Ph.D. (Classics and Comparative Literature) Yale University, 2001
M.Phil. (English Renaissance Literature) Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1996
B.A. (Literae Humaniores, Classical Literature and Philosophy) Balliol College Oxford, 1994
Tragedy
Poetics and literary theory
Literature and philosophy
Reception of classical literature, especially in the Renaissance
Gender
Genre
Six Tragedies of Seneca. Translation, with introduction and notes. Oxford World's Classics (2010).
The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007).
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), recipient of the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, 2003.
Translations of 3 tragedies of Euripides, Modern Greek Library (Random House)
Classics editor, Norton Anthology of World Literature, forthcoming, 2012
Odyssey: Translation of the poem, for Norton.
Book project on Seneca: Penguin and OUP.
(undergraduate) Classical Traditions; Aeschylus and Herodotus; Roman Comedy; Tragedy and the Tragic; the Ancient Novel
(graduate) Lucretius; Latin Elegy; Sophocles; Greek Prose; the Ancient Novel
