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
Professor of the Classics

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

Office Hours: Thursday 2–4

Jared M. Hudson

Associate Professor of the Classics

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

Paul Kosmin

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

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

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

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

Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30–12:30 or by appointment

Panagiotis Roilos

George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature

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

Mark Schiefsky

C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics
On leave 2018–19

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

Assistant Professor of the Classics
On leave 2018–19

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 Latin literature, especially narrative; education (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic), poetics, and literary criticism and theory in the Middle Ages; folktales and popular culture in medieval Latin sources; 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