Classics Faculty

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...

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Boylston 206

kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2024 and 617.495.9301

Office Hours: By appointment

Margaret Andrews

Assistant Professor of Classics

Research Interests: Mediterranean archaeology, especially Roman; archaeological theory and methods; urbanism and urban transformation; urban social... Read more about Margaret Andrews

Boylston Hall

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...

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FAS: Boylston 224

dench@fas.harvard.edu

p: FAS: 617.496.1956

Office Hours: By appointment

David Elmer

Eliot Professor of Greek Literature
On leave 2020–21

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

Boylston 223

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4019

Office Hours: Thursday 2–3:30, and by appointment. Email to request Zoom link.

Jared M. Hudson

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor of the Classics

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

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Boylston 232

jhudson@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9625

Paul Kosmin

Professor of the Classics
On leave 2020–21

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

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Boylston 215

pjkosmin@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1926

Office Hours: By appointment

Rachel Love

Assistant Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: Latin historiography; historical epitome; Livy; Florus; The Livian Periochae; Latin prose; literary culture of the Roman Republic... Read more about Rachel Love

Boylston 217

rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1709

Office Hours: By appointment

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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Boylston 228

gnagy@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.1941

Office Hours: By appointment

Jeremy Rau

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics
On leave spring 2021

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

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Boylston 313

rau@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.2318

Office Hours: By appointment

Alexander Riehle

Assistant Professor of the Classics

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

Boylston 226

ariehle@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.0970

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;...

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Boylston 231 and Widener 475

roilos@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.7783

Office Hours: By appointment

Mark Schiefsky

Director of Graduate Studies
C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics

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

Boylston 227

mjschief@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9301

Office Hours: By appointment

Adrian Stähli

Professor of Classical Archaeology
On leave spring 2021

Boylston 233

staehli@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2156

Office Hours: Thursday 12–2, and by appointment. Email to request Zoom link.

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...

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Boylston 221

rthomas@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.496.6061

Office Hours: By appointment

Naomi A. Weiss

Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities
On leave spring 2021

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

nweiss@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9623

Office Hours: By appointment

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