Alexander Nikolaev joins the Department
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Alexander Nikolaev will join the department as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies as of July 2013. He completed his dissertation, “Historical Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry,” at Harvard University in 2012. Professor Nikolaev is both a classicist and a linguist, and he is most […]
Professor Esposito “talks-back” about “The Penelopiad”
On Sunday, February 24, Professor Esposito served as a panelist in a “talk-back” after a BU CFA School of Theater production of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a feminist rewrite of Homer’s Odyssey. The performance (minus Professor Esposito) continues through March 2 at the Boston Center for the Arts.
James Uden Receives Peter Paul Professorship
Professor Uden is one of four recipients of the 2012 Peter Paul Professorship, an award established for the career development of new faculty. This award will further Professor Uden’s current project—a book about the Roman satirical poet Juvenal.
James Uden joins the Department
James Uden joins the department as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies. Professor Uden completed his dissertation on Juvenalian satire at Columbia University in 2011. This fall, he will teach an undergraduate Latin seminar (CAS CL 351) on Roman Satire and a graduate Latin seminar (GRS CL 720) on Juvenal.
Samons Announced as New NEH Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Jay Samons has received the Distinguished Teaching Fellowship (DTP) from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The Professorship was established in 1993 by the NEH with a challenge grant that matched funds from alumni and friends of CAS/GRS and the Division of General Education. The Professorship recognizes excellence in teaching by a prominent teacher-scholar […]
Jeffrey Henderson elected to AAAS
Jeffrey Henderson, the University’s William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature and a world-renowned classics scholar, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Annual Aristophanes Reading
We invite you to the annual Aristophanes Reading on Friday, April 8, 2011 in STO B50 (685 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B50). The fun starts at 5:00pm with pizza, 5:30 p.m. the Fish Worship Blues Band, and 6:00pm Aristophanes’ The Wasps. See faculty and students perform an ancient play in costumes of quite questionable historicity!