Kathleen M. Coleman

James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums
On leave 2017–18

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
Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2017–18

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

David Elmer

Professor of the Classics
On leave Spring 2018

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

Jared M. Hudson

Assistant Professor of the Classics
On leave Fall 2017

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

Paul Kosmin

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
On leave 2017–18 (Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)

Research Interests: Greek history; Greek historiography, especially Herodotus; ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian,

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

Nathan Pilkington

Lecturer on the Classics

Academia.edu

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

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;

Julia Scarborough

Lecturer on the Classics

Academia.edu

jcscarb@fas.harvard.edu

Mark Schiefsky

Professor of the Classics
Department Chair

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

Adrian Stähli

Professor of Classical Archaeology
On leave Fall 2017

Website

Boylston 233

staehli@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617.495.2156

Office Hours: Friday 12–2.

Richard J. Tarrant

Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
On leave Fall 2017

Research Interests: Latin poetry; Greek and Roman drama; transmission and editing of Latin texts

Richard F. Thomas

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics
On leave Spring 2018

Research Interests: Latin literature, especially republican and Augustan poetry and republican and imperial

Department of the Classics

Classics Faculty