Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of
Classics and
Comparative Literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...
at
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
She graduated from
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...
with a B.A. in 1981,
and from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
with a Ph.D. in 1988.
Awards
*1999
MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
*''The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy'', Cornell University Press, 1991,
*''Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics'', Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998,
''Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece'' Princeton University Press, 1999,
''The cultures within ancient Greek culture: contact, conflict, collaboration'' Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003,
* ''Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose'', Princeton University Press, 2011,
References
American classical scholars
Women classical scholars
Classical scholars of the University of California, Berkeley
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Princeton University alumni
MacArthur Fellows
Living people
1959 births
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