David Elmer

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Eliot Professor of Greek Literature
Faculty Dean of Eliot House
David Elmer
Boylston 223
617.495.4019
delmer@fas.harvard.edu
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For undergraduate program inquiries, please email classicsDUS@fas.harvard.edu.

Research interests: archaic Greek epic and lyric poetry, epigram, Ancient Greek and Roman novels, South Slavic oral epic, contemporary literary theory

Elmer, David, and Peter McMurry, eds. 2024. Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature (distributed by Harvard University Press).
Elmer, David, and Peter McMurry, eds. 2024. Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature (distributed by Harvard University Press).
Elmer, David. 2013. The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Elmer, David. 2013. The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Lord, Albert Bates. 2019. The Singer of Tales. Edited by David Elmer. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.
Lord, Albert Bates. 2019. The Singer of Tales. Edited by David Elmer. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.