Laura Slatkin
Professor Laura Slatkin
Program Scholar for the Brooklyn Public Library
B.A. 1968, Harvard; M.A. 1970, Cambridge; Ph.D. 1979, Harvard
Before joining the faculty of Gallatin at New York University, 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; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cultural poetics. 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 is currently one of its associate editors. She has coedited Histories of Post-War French Thought, Volume 2: Antiquities (with G. Nagy and N. Loraux, New Press, 2001), and is currently working on a study of the reception of Homer in British romantic poetry. In 2007, she was a Fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris. She is also currently visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
