Registration Information

UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS GREEK 15
2012 INTENSIVE SUMMER GREEK WORKSHOP

Staff

Director: Virginia Lewis (email: vlewis@berkeley.edu)

Virginia is a fifth year PhD student in Classics. She came to Berkeley after completing a BA in Classical Studies and Post-bac year at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a MA in Classical Languages at the University of Georgia. Her academic interests include Greek literature with a focus on poetry, Greek religion, and Greek history, and she is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the interaction between cult, landscape, and choral lyric poetry in Western Greece in the archaic and early classical periods. At UC Berkeley, Virginia has taught courses in Greek and Latin language, and classical culture, including: Latin 1, Latin 2, Introduction to Greek Civilization, and the Greek Workshop (first and second halves).

Instructors for the First Half:

Tom Hendrickson

Tom is in the sixth year of the Classics Ph.D. program at UC Berkeley, where he also received his MA. He is writing a dissertation on sociological aspects of ancient libraries, and also has interests in historiography (especially biography) and linguistics. At Berkeley Tom has taught classes in Greek (beginning Greek and the second half of the Greek workshop), Latin (beginning and intermediate Latin, as well as Latin prose composition and the first half of the Latin workshop), and classical culture (Roman Civilization).

Rachel Lesser

Rachel is a fourth year PhD student in Classics, with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She also received her MA in Classics at Berkeley, and before that a BA in Classics at Columbia University and a second BA in Classics and English at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her primary academic interests are Greek literature (especially poetry), erotics, genre, and reception studies. She is currently beginning a dissertation on the meaning and function of erotics in Greek Epic (particularly Homer). At Berkeley, Rachel has taught Introduction to Greek Civilization, and first-year Latin language courses.

Instructor for the Second Half: Naomi Weiss

Naomi is in the fourth year of her PhD in Classics. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she completed a BA in Classics and a Masters in Classical languages and literature at the University of Oxford, and taught Latin and Greek at a high school in London. She is currently writing her dissertation on music and dance in Greek tragedy, but her research interests also include ancient ethnography and archaic Greek poetry. While at Berkeley, Naomi has taught both language and classical culture courses, including Latin 1, Intensive Greek, and Introduction to Greek Civilization.