Kathryn J. Gutzwiller is a professor of

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

. She specialises in

Hellenistic poetry Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are ...

, and her interests include Greek and Latin poetry, ancient

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...

, and the interaction between text and image. Her contribution to Hellenistic

epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...

and

pastoral poetry A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts ...

has been considered particularly influential.

Career

Gutzwiller was awarded her PhD in classics by the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

(1977). She has served as a director of the

American Philological Association The Society for Classical Studies (SCS), formerly known as the American Philological Association (APA) is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization founded in 1869. It is the preemine ...

(APA) and as monograph editor of the APA's American Classics Series. Gutzwiller is awarded numerous grants, including a

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

(NEH), a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellowship to the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

, Princeton, an

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(ACLS) Fellowship, and a Loeb Classical Foundation Grant. In 2001, she received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for Poetic Garlands, has twice won the

Gildersleeve Award The Gildersleeve Prize is an annual award of $1,000 to the author of "the best article of the year" published in the ''American Journal of Philology''. It is awarded by The Johns Hopkins University Press and is named after the classical scholar ...

for the best article in the

American Journal of Philology The ''American Journal of Philology'' is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It covers the field of philology, and related areas ...

. In 2002, she was awarded the Rieveschl Award for scholarly excellence at the University of Cincinnati. She is now working towards an edition and commentary on the epigrams by

Meleager of Gadara Meleager of Gadara ( grc-gre, Μελέαγρος ; fl. 1st century BC) was a poet and collector of epigrams. He wrote some satire, satirical prose, now lost, and some sensual poetry, of which 134 epigrams survive. Life Meleager was the son of E ...

, to be published by

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Selected publications

Books

*(2005) The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book, edited by K. Gutzwiller. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *(2008) Revised paperback edition. *(1981) Studies in the Hellenistic Epyllion, in Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, Heft 114. Meisenheim am Glan. *(2007) A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. *(1998) Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context. Berkeley: University of California Press. *(1991) Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Articles and contributions to volumes

*(2012) “All in the Family: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in New Comedy,” in Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, Christian, edited by Charles Griswold and David Konstan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 48–75. *(2011) "Apelles and the Painting of Language," Revue de Philologie 83 (2009, published 2011) 39–63. *(2010) "Images poétiques et reminiscences artistiques dans les épigrammes de Méléagre," translated from English by Évelyne Prioux, in Métamorphoses du regard ancient, edited by Évelyne Prioux and Agnès Rouveret (Paris), pp. 67–112. *(2010) “Literary Criticism,” in A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuipers (Malden, MA, Oxford, and Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 337–65. *(2007) "The Paradox of Amatory Epigram," in Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, edited by Peter Bing and Jon Bruss (Leiden: Brill), pp. 313–32. *(2006). "The Herdsman in Greek Thought," in Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis (Leiden/Boston: Brill), pp. 1–23. *(2006). "The Bucolic Problem," Classical Philology 101: 380–404. *(2006) "Learning and Love in the Epigrams of Meleager," in Syncharmata: Studies in Honour of Jan Fredrik Kindstrand, edited by Sten Eklund. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 21., (Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet), pp. 67–85. *(2004) "Gender and Inscribed Epigram: Herennia Procula and the Thespian Eros," Transactions of the American Philological Association 134: 383–418. *(2003). "Visual Aesthetics in Meleager and Cavafy." Classical and Modern Literature 32: 67-87

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