Kathleen M. Coleman

Department Chair
James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Research Interests: Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; history and culture of the early Empire; arena spectacles; Roman punishment; Latin...

Emma Dench

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests: Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman...

David Elmer

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

Research Interests: the Homeric poems, the Greek and Roman novels, South Slavic oral epic poetry, contemporary literary theory

Website

Boylston 223

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4019

Jared M. Hudson

Associate Professor of the Classics
On leave spring 2020

Research Interests: Latin literature and Roman culture, Roman transportation, Latin prose, the Roman rhetorical...

Paul Kosmin

Professor of the Classics

Research interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and...

Rachel Love

Assistant Professor of the Classics

Boylston 217

rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1709

Gregory Nagy

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies

Research Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek poetry and prose; rhetoric, linguistics, metrics, traditions

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Website

Boylston 228

gnagy@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1941

Jeremy Rau

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics
Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests: Greek and Latin historical linguistics; Homeric language; Indo-European languages and linguistics; Indo-Iranian linguistics...

Alexander Riehle

Assistant Professor of the Classics
On leave 2019–20

Research Interests: Byzantine literature, especially rhetoric and epistolography; sociology of literature; textual criticism and editorial theory

Website

Boylston 226

ariehle@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.0970

Panagiotis Roilos

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature
On leave fall 2019

Research Interests: postclassical Greek literature and culture; comparative poetics; reception studies; cultural politics;...

Mark Schiefsky

C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: the history of ancient philosophy and science, especially medicine and mechanics

Website

Boylston 227

mjschief@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9301

Adrian Stähli

Professor of Classical Archaeology

Website

Boylston 233

staehli@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2156

Richard F. Thomas

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: Latin literature, especially republican and Augustan poetry and republican and imperial historiography; Hellenistic Greek...

Naomi A. Weiss

Associate Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr play, dithyramb; ancient Greek music and dance; archaic lyric

Website

nweiss@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9623

Jan Ziolkowski

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Research Interests: Medieval literature, especially narrative and Latin; education (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic), poetics, and literary criticism and theory in the Middle Ages; folktales and popular culture in medieval sources, especially Latin; Latin-vernacular relations... Read more about Jan Ziolkowski

Harvard Website

Academia.edu

Boylston 216

jmziolk@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.6062

Office Hours: By appointment

Department of the Classics

Classics Faculty

Kathleen M. Coleman

Emma Dench

David Elmer

Jared M. Hudson

Paul Kosmin

Rachel Love

Gregory Nagy

Jeremy Rau

Alexander Riehle

Panagiotis Roilos

Mark Schiefsky

Adrian Stähli

Richard F. Thomas

Naomi A. Weiss

Jan Ziolkowski

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