Emily Greenwood

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Emily Greenwood is Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She was formerly professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and John M. Musser Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at Yale University. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek historiography, particularly Thucydides and Herodotus, the development of History as a genre and a modern critical discipline, and local and transnational black traditions of interpreting Greek and Roman classics. Her work explores the appropriation and reinvention of Greco-Roman classical antiquity from the late nineteenth century to the present. [1]

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Early life and education

Greenwood has been described as "half-British, half-Ugandan, and she was born in the Cayman Islands". [1]

Greenwood won a merit scholarship to a boarding school, Sevenoaks School. [1] She gained her BA, MPhil, and PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] Her PhD thesis, completed in 2001 and supervised by Professor Paul Cartledge was entitled The Invention of the Critic. The Writer as Critic from Herodotus to Aristotle. [3]

Career

Greenwood held a junior research fellowship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 2000 until 2002. [4] She was a lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews from 2002 to 2008, and joined the Classics Department at Yale in 2009, where she was Professor of Classics [5] and John M. Musser Professor of Classics from October 2020. [6]

She received the Runciman Award in 2011 for her book Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 2010). [7]

Greenwood gave the Yale College Keynote Address on 29 August 2017 with the talk "The University we Build". [1] In 2018 she gave the Clack lecture at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States annual meeting, "Speaking Bones: Classical Philology in Black Experimental Writing". [8] At the same conference, a panel was organised in honour of her work. [9] In 2019 she gave the inaugural lecture of the University of Texas at Austin Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series, “Narrative and Social Justice", speaking on “Philology and Reparation: Resisting Anti-Human Errors in ‘Great’ Books”. [10] She is a general editor of the Cambridge University Press series 'Classics after Antiquity'. [11]

In 2022 Greenwood was hired by Harvard in a joint professorship between the Department of Comparative Literature and Department of the Classics. [12] In 2023 she was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. [13]

Bibliography

Monographs

Articles and book chapters

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  1. 1 2 3 4 YaleUniversity (2017-08-30). "Yale College, Keynote Address, August 29, 2017" . Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  2. ↑ "Sevenoaks School: Dr Emily Greenwood (OS 1993)". www.sevenoaksschool.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  3. ↑ The writer as critic : inventions of the critic from Herodotus to Aristotle in libraries ( WorldCat catalog)
  4. ↑ "Emily Greenwood | The MacMillan Center Hellenic Studies Program". hsp.macmillan.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  5. ↑ "Emily Greenwood | Yale Department of Classics". classics.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  6. ↑ "Home | Yale Department of Classics". classics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  7. ↑ "Previous winners – Runciman Award". runcimanaward.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  8. ↑ "2018 Annual Meeting Program | CAAS-CW" . Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  9. ↑ "Emily Greenwood Honored at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting, 2018 | Yale Department of Classics". classics.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  10. ↑ "Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series : "Narrative and Social Justice" with Emily Greenwood". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  11. ↑ "Classics after Antiquity". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  12. ↑ "Professor Emily Greenwood". Downing College, Cambridge. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  13. ↑ "Four new Honorary Fellows elected". Downing College, Cambridge. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
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