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EMILY WILSON
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Education
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
FAAR 2006-2007
Research and teaching interests
Tragedy
Poetics and literary theory
Literature and philosophy
Reception of classical literature, especially in the Renaissance
Gender
Recent Courses
(undergraduate) Aeschylus, Roman Comedy, Love and Loss
(graduate) Lucretius, Latin Elegy
Major Publications
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), recipient of the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, 2003
The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007)
Work in progress
a verse translation of Seneca's tragedies for Oxford World's Classics
Classics editor, Norton Anthology of World Literature
Contact
Office: Cohen 265
Phone: (215) 898-6939
Fax: (215) 898-6568
Email • Curriculum vitae
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