I joined the Classics Department at UCLA in 2017 after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Washington and my MA and BA in Classics at Stanford University (2010 and…
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Bryant Kirkland
Published: August 15, 2017I am currently Associate Professor of Classics, having joined the Classics Department at UCLA in 2017 after a year’s teaching at Kenyon College. My degrees are from Yale (PhD, 2016),…
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Published: October 6, 2016Zachary Borst received his Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA and submitted his dissertation Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Classical Greek Literature in June 2021. He has also received an M.A. in…
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Published: October 6, 2016Professor King received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1978 after first earning an M.A. in Greek from Columbia University. She holds a joint appointment in the…
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Published: October 6, 2016As UCLA Distinguished Research Professor, Sander Goldberg continues to explore the relationship of Roman literature to Roman life. A new edition of the pioneering Republican poet Ennius for the Loeb…
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Published: October 6, 2016Steven Lattimore
Published: October 6, 2016Professor Lattimore’s teaching assignments reflected his research interests in Greek literature, history, and material culture. His courses covered literature, art and iconography, and Greek and Roman athletics. He has published…
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Published: October 6, 2016Professor Haslam specializes in ancient Greek literature. He is a papyrologist, and publishes new literary and paraliterary papyri in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri series. He makes available new accessions to the…
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Published: October 6, 2016I completed my undergraduate degree in Cambridge, England and my doctorate at the University of Southern California. I began lecturing in the UCLA department of Classics in the winter quarter…
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Published: October 6, 2016A bit of phrasing from pre-retirement web bios that has acquired some notoriety is the assertion “I hate syntax!”. That was meant as a humorous exaggeration; but it’s not off…
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