# David Elmer Director of Undergraduate Studies Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Faculty Dean of Eliot House ![David Elmer](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2024-09/elmer_david_headshot_10.11.2022_crop.jpeg?h=8defd61c&itok=W9ahOe7W) location\_on Boylston 223 smartphone [617.495.4019](tel:617.495.4019) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://dfelmer.scholars.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Office Hours Information](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/faculty-office-hours) For undergraduate program inquiries, please email [classicsDUS@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:///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 Download 3 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=96976&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) Elmer, David, and Peter McMurry, eds. 2024. *[Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century](/publication/singers-and-tales-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](/publication/singers-and-tales-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](/publications/poetics-consent-collective-decision-making-and-iliad)*. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press. Elmer, David. 2013. *[The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad](/publications/poetics-consent-collective-decision-making-and-iliad)*. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/poetics-consent) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/poetics-consent) Lord, Albert Bates. 2019. *[The Singer of Tales](/publication/singer-tales)*. Edited by David Elmer. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. Lord, Albert Bates. 2019. *[The Singer of Tales](/publication/singer-tales)*. Edited by David Elmer. 3rd edition. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. - ## People Role [Classics Faculty](/people-role/classics-faculty) [Administration](/people-role/administration)