Laura M. Slatkin

New York University Gallatin School 715 Broadway, 806-D New York, NY 10003 laura.slatkin@nyu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

archaic and classical Greek poetry; ancient and modern drama and lyric; cultural poetics of early Greece; gender in antiquity

EDUCATION

1979 Ph.D in Classical Philology, Harvard University 1968-70 B.A., M.A. (Hons.) in Classics, Cambridge University (Newnham Coll.) 1964-68 B.A. Magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Greek, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts

TEACHING

2002- Professor of Classics, New York University, Gallatin School 1993 -2002 Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Chicago 1983-93 Assistant to Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics, Columbia University 1981-83 Mellon Fellow, Columbia University 1980-81 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, Yale University 1976-80 Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California at Santa Cruz (on leave'"80-'81)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad  (Berkeley: 1992)
• The Harper Collins World Reader, vol.1, "The Ancient Mediterranean World," co-editor D. Damrosch.  (New York: 1993)
• Histories of Post-War French Thought vol. 2, Antiquities: Rewriting the Past, Rethinking the Present, co-editors N. Loraux and G. Nagy.  (New York: 2001)
• The Power of Thetis and selected Essays (Harvard U. P. 2008, forthcoming)

Articles

• "Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad"Chapter 1 in Visualizing the Tragic, edd. Kraus, C., S. Goldhill, J. Elsner, H. Foley (Oxford: 2007)
• "Antigone: language and recognition" forthcoming in Le Genre Humain (Paris: 2008)
• "Homer"s Odyssey", in Blackwell"s Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. Foley, J. M.  (Oxford: 2005) 315-329.
• "Gender and the Homeric Poems," (co-author Nancy Felson), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, R. Fowler, ed. (Cambridge: 2004) 91-114.
• "Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures in Hesiod"s Works and Days," in The Moral Authority of Nature, edd. Daston, L. and F. Vidal, (Chicago: 2004) 25-49.
• "The Wrath of Thetis," in Oxford Readings in the Iliad, ed. D.L. Cairns (Oxford: 2002) 409-434.
• "Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey,",in Reading the Odyssey, ed. S.L.Schein (Princeton:1996) 223-237.
• "Les amis mortels: les injures sur le champ de bataille", L'Écrit du Temps 19, 1988
• "Genre and Generation in the Odyssey,"MÉTIS Vol. 1 no. 2, Feb 1987 (Paris and Athens), pp. 259-268
• "Oedipus at Colonus: Exile and Integration" Ch. 8 in Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, ed. J.P. Euben, University of California Press, 1986
• "The Wrath of Thetis" TAPA 116 (1986) 1-24

Work in Progress:

British Romantic Homer and Beyond, with Maureen N. McLane, book on emergent conceptions of Homer, comparative oral poetries, and oral cultures (ancient and modern) in 18th and 19th C.  Britain

book in progress on Figure, Measure, and Social Order in Early Greek Poetry

Invited Talks (selected):

• "Zeus" Lovers", Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, Nov. 2007
• "Classics in the 21st Century", NYU symposium, “The Humanities in the 21st Century", La Pietra, Florence, April 2007
• "Gender in the Iliad", NYU Institute for the Humanities Conference on War Music, New York, April 2007
• 'Homer, Oral Tradition, and “Primitive Poetry" in Britain and France 1750-1830' (with M. McLane)  Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Paris, February 2007
• "Homeric Homecomings" Keynote Address at CUNY Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, "Ancient and Modern Meanings of Home", New York, Nov. 2006
• "Mortal Visions in the Iliad", Paddison Lecture in Greek Literature, Univ. of North Carolina, May, 2006
• Moderator, "On Translation" symposium, Columbia University, March 2005
• Moderator, Classics Now! conference, NYU, Feb. 2005
• "On Reading the Odyssey", Columbia University, September 2004
• "The Poetics of Measurement in early Greek literature" seminar, École des Hautes Études, Paris, May 2003
• " How and Why Our Days are Numbered: Hesiod"s Works and Days", Middlebury Coll. April 2003
• "Hesiod and 'Genre'", Craven Seminar, Cambridge Univ., May 2002
• "The Catalogue of Women and its Two Names," Vassar College, February 2002
• "The Measure of Authority: Hesiod and the Poetics of Order", Interdisciplinary
Workshop on Authority in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Harvard University, May 2001
• "Rethinking Postwar French Thought on Antiquity: the Work of Nicole Loraux",
conference on "Postwar French Thought on Antiquity", NYU, April 2000
• "Measuring Authority in Hesiod"s Works and Days,",Max-Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, September 1999
• "How and Why Our Days are Numbered", University of Toronto, March 1999
• "The Figures of Justice", McMaster University, March 1999
• "Work and the Human Condition in Early Greek Thought" Deppe Memorial Lecture, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 1998
• Respondent, Conference on Homeric Studies, Univ. of Calif. at Davis,  May, 1998
• "The Poetics of Measurement in Hesiod's Works and Days" Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C., March 1998
• "Images of Peace in a World of War," Smithsonian, Washington D.C. March 1998
• Respondent, Conference on “The Current State of Homeric Studies" Northwestern, Feb. 1998
• Respondent to Panel on Oral Theory, "Interdisciplinarity and the Classics " conference in Honor of John Peradotto, University of Georgia, March 1997
• "Measure and Mortality in Hesiod's Works and Days", Univ. of Cambridge, June 1996
• "Measure and Mortality in Hesiod's Works and Days", Harvard University, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, May 1996
• "Measure and Mortality in Hesiod's Works and Days", Univ. of Pittsburgh, March 1996
• "Metaphor and Social Order in Early Greek Epic", U. of Indiana-Bloomington, Feb. '96
• "War and its Metaphors in the Homeric poems", Vassar College, April 1995
• "Metaphor and Social Order in Early Greek Epic", Haverford College, March 1995
• "Epic Poetics and Hesiod's Works and Days ", U. of Wisconsin at Madison, Dec. 1994
• "Theban Traces at Troy", Conference on "The Iliad and its Contexts", Ohio State University, Oct. 1994
• "The Poetics of Exchange in the Iliad," University of Pittsburgh, March 1990
• "Dialogues in the Iliad," U.C.L.A. "Homeric Dialogues" Conference, May 1989
• Introduction to "Revolution and Negation: the Revisionist Case",
Plenary Session, International Colloquium on 20th Century French Studies, Columbia University, April 1989
• Seminar on the Iliad, École des Hautes Études, Paris, May-June 1988
• "Moral Language in Early Greek Literature", Swarthmore College, March 1988
• "The Odyssey: oral theory and narrative theory", University of California at Santa Cruz, November 1987
• NEH Summer Institute in Classical Studies for High School Teachers, "Moral Terms and Human Conduct in Archaic Greek Poetry", Skidmore College, July 1986
• "Homeric Mythology and Oral Style", Howard University, April 1986
• "Genre and Generation in the Odyssey, Symposium in honor of Professor G.E. Dimock, Smith College, November 1985
• "Homeric Mythology and Oral Style", Skidmore College, August 1986
• Commentator, Symposium on Greek Tragedy in honor of Professor H. Bacon, Barnard College, April 1984
• Odysseus as Singer of Tales", Oral Theory Symposium, U. of Pennsylvania, Apr. '84

Papers Accepted for Presentation at Professional Meetings and Conferences:

• "Paradigm, Sequence, Ambiguity: the Case of Helen in Myth Collections", American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan. 2005
• "The Poetics of Measurement in Hesiod's Works and Days", A.P. A., NYC, Dec. 1996
  
• "Metaphor and Social Order in Early Greek Epic",  conference on "Epics and the Contemporary World"  University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1994
  
• Commentator, panel on Greek Marriage, APA meeting, New Orleans, December 1992
  
• "Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language", A.P.A. Annual Meeting, Chicago, Dec '91
  
• "Moral Terms and Human Conduct in Early Greek Poetry" NEH Panel, A.P.A. Annual Meeting, Baltimore, January 1989
  
• "Beyond Ancestor Worship", panel on interdisciplinary approaches in graduate education, A.P.A. Annual Meeting, New York, December 1987
  
• "The onesis of Oedipus at Colonus", A.P.A. Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec '85
  
• "The Anthropology of Genre", Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Annual Meeting, November 1985
  
• "Anthropology and the Greeks", A.P.A. Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 1984
  "Alkinoos and Odysseus as Bard", A.P.A., San Francisco, December 1981

Academic Honors and Awards:

Fellowship, The Liguria Foundation, Genoa (2007)
Fellowship, Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Paris (2007)
University of Chicago Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, (1998)
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (1990)
Maître de Conference, École des Hautes Études, Paris (1988)
Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities Fellowships (1988,1991)
1981-83  Mellon Fellowship, Columbia University (1981-83)
ACLS Fellowship (1988)
American Association of University Women Fellowship (1975-76)
Phi Beta Kappa (1968)

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