New York University

Before joining the faculty of Gallatin, Laura M. Slatkin taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago, where she received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Her research and teaching interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry, especially epic and drama; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity; gender studies; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cultural poetics. Her recent course offerings have included Gender in Antiquity; Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Wisdom Traditions; Ancient Reflections in a Time of Modern War; Medea and Beloved; and Classical Drama and Its Influences. Professor Slatkin has published articles on Greek epic and drama; a second edition of her book The Power of Thetis is being published in 2009 by Harvard University Press. She has served as the editor in chief of Classical Philology, an international journal in the field of classics, and has coedited Histories of Post-War French Thought, Volume 2: Antiquities (with G. Nagy and N. Loraux, New Press, 2001). In 2007, she held a fellowship from Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris, and she is currently working on a study of the reception of Homer in British romantic poetry. Professor Slatkin has been invited to present her work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, the Craven Seminar at Cambridge University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She is also currently visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.