Lillian E. Doherty
Lillian E. Doherty
Lillian E. Doherty is a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has taught since 1984. Her home is in the Department of Classics but she is also a member of the affiliate faculties in Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature. She specializes in archaic Greek poetry, with a special emphasis on the Odyssey and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Her first book, Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (1995), combined feminist, narratological, and audience-oriented criticism. It was followed in 2001 by Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth, an overview and critique of major twentieth-century interpretive approaches to Greek and Roman mythology. In 2009, her edited volume, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Homer’s Odyssey, will appear. Her most recent work seeks to uncover traces of a women’s oral tradition in the stories that have come down to us in the Hesiodic Catalogue.
Professor Doherty teaches Greek at all levels from the introductory to the graduate, as well as courses in English translation on classical mythology, ancient comedy, the classical tradition, and women in classical antiquity. She is active in the Women’s Classical Caucus and has served on the Education Committee of the American Philological Association. In 2009, she will begin a term as Associate Editor for Greek of the American Journal of Philology.
