Jeffrey Henderson
Director of Graduate Studies
William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature
General Editor, Loeb Classical Library

Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 435
W: 1-2PM
R: 2-3PM

Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 435
Boston, MA 02215
617.358.5072 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
jhenders@bu.edu

Education
1972 PhD Harvard University
1970 MA Harvard University
1968 BA Kenyon College

Positions Held
Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University, 2008-present
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2002-2007
Professor, Boston University, 1991-present
Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1986
Professor, University of Southern California, 1986-1991
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 1983-1986
Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, 1982-1983
Associate Professor, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1978-1982
Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1973-1978
Instructor, Yale University, 1972-1973
 
Major Awards
Goodwin Award of Merit, APA (2002), for Loeb Aristophanes
Doctor of Humane Letters, Kenyon College  (1994)
Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award (1991)

Major Fellowships 
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1997-1998
National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Faculty Fellowship, 1991-1992
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, 1991 
ACLS Travel Grant, 1990
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978-1979 (declined)

Books in Progress
Aristophanes' Knights. Edited with Introduction and Commentary. (Clarendon Press: Oxford).

The Fragments of Attic Comedy in Translation, with D. Konstan, R. Rosen, J. Rusten, N. Slater (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore).

Books
The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy (Yale UP: New Haven/London 1975; repr. with corrections and additions by Oxford UP: Oxford/New York 1990).

Aristophanes: Essays in Interpretation, contr. ed. (Yale Classical Studies XXVI: Cambridge UP: Cambridge 1980).

Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1987; repr. with corrections 1990).

Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Translated with Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library: Cambridge MA 1988).

Aristophanes' Acharnians. Translated with Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library: Cambridge MA 1992).

Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis, contr. ed. with S. Halliwell, A.H. Sommerstein and B. Zimmermann (Levante Editori: Bari 1993).

Aristophanes' Clouds. Translated with Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library: Cambridge, MA 1993).

Three Plays by Aristophanes. Staging Women (Routledge: New York and London 1996).

Aristophanes. Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds (Focus Classical Library: Newburyport 1997).

Aristophanes' Birds. Translated with Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library: Cambridge, MA 1999).

Aristophanes' Frogs. Translated with Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library: Cambridge, MA 2008).

Aristophanes, Edited and Translated (Loeb Classical Library: Harvard UP: Cambridge MA and London), in five volumes: Volume I: Acharnians, Knights (1998), Volume II: Clouds, Wasps, Peace (1998), Volume III: Birds, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria (2000), Volume IV: Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth (2002); Volume V: Fragments (2007).

Articles
1972. "The Lekythos and Frogs 1200-1248". HSCP 76:133-44.
1973. "A Note on Ar. Ach". 834-5. CP 68:289-90.
1973. "Scribes, Scholars and Aristophanic Comedy". Arion 1/3:530-46.
1974. "KOIDARION: A Reply". Mnem. 4.27:293-96.
1975. "Sparring Partners: A Note on Ar. Eccl". 964-65. AJP 96:344-47.
1976. "The Cologne Epode and the Conventions of Early Greek Erotic Poetry". Arethusa 9:159-79.
1978. "Coniecturarum in Aristophanis Lysistratam Repertorium". HSCP 82:87-119.
1978. "PKöln 14 (Ar. Lys.): Two Problems". ZPE 31:77-79.
1979. "Ar. Lys. 164". CQ 29:53-55.
1979. PBodlClass e 87(P) (Ar. Lys. 433-47, 469-84). ZPE 34:31-35.
1980. "BINEIN: Further Thoughts". LCM 5:243-44.
1980. American Academic Encyclopedia (Princeton 1980): Aristophanes. Eupolis. Greek Literature. Kratinos. Menander. Phrynichos.
1987. "Older Women in Attic Old Comedy". TAPA 117:105-29.
1988. "Greek Attitudes Toward Sex. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome", edd. M. Grant and R. Kitzinger (Scribners: New York) II.1249-63.
1990. "The Dêmos and the Comic Competition. Nothing to do with Dionysos? The Social Meanings of Athenian Drama", edd. J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin (Princeton University Press: Princeton) 271-313.
1990. "The Training of Classicists. Classics: A Profession in Crisis?" edd. P. Culham and L. Edmunds (University Press of America) 89-98.
1991. "Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals". TAPA 121:133-47.
1993. "Unpublished Early Emendations in Aristophanes Knights". Tria Lustra, ed. H.D. Jocelyn (Liverpool) 115-17.
1993. "Translating Aristophanes for Performance". Drama 2:81-91.
1993. "Comic Hero vs. Political Elite. Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis", ed. S. Halliwell, J. Henderson, A.H. Sommerstein, B. Zimmermann (Levante Editori: Bari) 307-19.
1993. "Problems in Greek Literary History: The Case of Aristophanes’ Clouds, in Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald", edd. J. Farrell and R.M. Rosen (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor) 591-601.
1993. Introduction to a new edition of F.M. Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy (Univ. of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor) xi-xxxiii.
1995. "Beyond Aristophanes, in Beyond Aristophanes: Tradition and Diversity in Greek Comedy", ed. G.W. Dobrov (Scholars Press: Atlanta) 175-83.
1996. "Aristophanes". Perseus Databank 2.0 (Perseus Project and Yale University Press).
1996. "The Demos and the Comic Competition", abridged version in E. Segal, ed. Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (Oxford University Press) 65-97.
1997. "Aristophanes". Dictionary of Literary Biography 176: Ancient Greek Authors, ed. Ward W. Briggs (Bruccoli Clark Layman: Detroit/Washington DC/London) 47-54.
1998. "Mass versus Elite and the Comic Heroism of Peisetairos, in The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama", ed. G.W. Dobrov (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill) 135-48.
1998. "Attic Old Comedy, Frank Speech, and Democracy, in Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens", edd. D. Boedeker & K. A. Raaflaub (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA) 255-73.
2000. "Pherekrates and the Women of Old Comedy, in The Rivals of Aristophanes", edd. F.D. Harvey & J.M. Wilkins (Duckworth: London) 135-50.
2001. "Griechische Pornographie," in H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds., Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopaedie der Antike (Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler Verlag), vol. 10 (2000) 165-68.
2002. "Epilogue," American Journal of Philology 123:501-11.
2002. "Strumpets on Stage: The Early Comic Hetaera," Dioniso, Rivista Annuale no. 1, pp. 78-87.
2003. "When an Identity Was Expected: The Slaves in Aristophanes' Knights," Gestures. Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan Boegehold, edd. G.W. Bakewell and J.P. Sickinger (Oxbow Books: Oxford) 63-73.
2003. "Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy," Popular Tyranny, ed. K.A. Morgan (University of Texas Press: Austin) 155-79.
2007: "Drama and Democracy," The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles, ed. L. J. Samons (Cambridge University Press) 179-95.