Classics Faculty

David Elmer

Department Chair
Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

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

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Boylston 206

delmer@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4019

Office Hours: Friday 1–3 p.m. (see sign-up link)

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

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Boylston 222

margaretandrews@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.4061

Office Hours: Tuesday 12–2 (see sign-up link)

Kathleen M. Coleman

James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums
On leave 2021–22

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

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kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2024

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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University Hall

dench@fas.harvard.edu

p: FAS: 617.496.1956

Office Hours: By appointment

Jared M. Hudson

Director of Undergraduate Studies (fall 2021)
Associate Professor of Classics
On leave spring 2022

Research Interests: Latin literature and Roman culture; late republican and early imperial Latin prose; Cicero and Roman...

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Boylston 232

jhudson@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.9625

Office Hours: Tuesday 12–2 p.m. or by appointment

Paul Kosmin

Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History
On leave 2021–22

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

Rachel Love

Assistant Professor of the Classics
On leave 2021–22

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

rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu

Gregory Nagy

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

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

Irene Peirano Garrison

Director of Graduate Studies
Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature

For graduate admissions inquiries, please email classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.

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Boylston 218

peirano@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.5216

Jeremy Rau

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics
On leave 2021–22

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

Alexander Riehle

Assistant Professor of the Classics

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

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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

C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics
Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies

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

Boylston 233

staehli@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2156

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Richard F. Thomas

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics
On leave 2021–22

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: Friday 4–4:30 p.m.

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