Emily Hauser

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Emily Hauser (born 1987 or 1988) [1] is a British scholar of classics and a historical fiction novelist. She is a lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter and has published three novels in her 'Golden Apple' trilogy: For the Most Beautiful (2016), For the Winner (2017) and For the Immortal (2018).

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Early life and education

Hauser was born in Brighton, United Kingdom [2] and brought up in Suffolk. [3] [4] She attended The Abbey school in Woodbridge and Orwell Park School near Ipswich, where she began learning Greek at age 11. [5] [6] [7]

Hauser studied classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she was taught by Mary Beard, [6] [3] graduating with her BA in 2009. [2] She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard University for the 2010-2011 academic year. [2] She completed an MA and MPhil at Yale University in 2015, and her Ph.D. at Yale in 2017, [2] with a thesis titled 'Since Sappho: Women in Classical Literature and Contemporary Women’s Writing' supervised by Emily Greenwood. [8] While at Yale, Hauser twice received the Alice Derby Lang Essay Prize awarded to students attaining "high scholarship" in classical literature or art. [9] [8]

Academic career

After receiving her Ph.D., she returned to Harvard as a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows for 2017–2018, [4] and joined the University of Exeter as a lecturer in classics and ancient history in July 2018. [4]

In 2011, Hauser translated Philippe Rousseau's 2001 article "L'Intrigue de Zeus" from French to English for the Harvard University Center of Hellenic Studies. [10] [11]

Hauser's academic work focuses on authorship and gender in antiquity, women in Homeric epic and classical reception in contemporary women's writing. [4] Her first monograph, How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature, is (as of 2022) forthcoming under contract with Princeton University Press. In it, Hauser aims to investigate the language of poetic production in classical literature, and its role in suppressing and marginalising female voices from antiquity. [12]

Hauser's novels also reflect her focus on women's narratives and how these can expand contemporary understanding of classical stories by providing new perspectives. [13]

Novels

Hauser's first novel, For the Most Beautiful, was published by Transworld (Penguin Random House) in 2016 and is the first in the 'Golden Apple' trilogy. [14] It retells the story of the Trojan War from the perspective of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and Briseis, a princess of Pedasus enslaved after her husband is killed by the Greeks. [14] The title comes from the inscription upon the Apple of Discord in Greek mythology, which Eris, the goddess of strife, offered as a gift at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, bringing about the Judgement of Paris and the Trojan War. [15]

Hauser has expressed the importance of women's voices and narratives to her work in a 2016 interview with Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE). [16] In the interview, Hauser notes that the lack of female perspective in the Iliad often contributes to a dismissal of the tale as a mere war story focused on men.

One of Hauser's main motivations to write is to make the literature of antiquity accessible to those who have not yet encountered the classical world. [13] Hauser has stated that the background for her character building for Krisayis was supplemented by post-classical receptions of Chryseis, namely the Shakespearean depiction of Cressida. [13] Both Chaucer and Shakespeare's versions contributed to Hauser's interest in the confusion of Briseis and Chryseis in the medieval tradition. Hauser expands the narratives of the two women in her novel, developing the idea that "these are actually two facets of one woman who [is] experiencing the Trojan War from different perspectives." [13]

She has published two further books in the 'Golden Apple' trilogy: For the Winner (2017), which retells the story of Atalanta and her travels with the Argonauts, [14] and For the Immortal (2018), which follows Admete and her journey along with Heracles to recover the Belt of Hippolyta. Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, is also a major character in the narrative. [17]

Selected publications

Non-fiction books

Non-fiction book chapters

Novels

Journal articles

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References

  1. ↑ Hauser, Emily. "'Emily Hauser (1999-01)". Orwell Park School. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Emily Hauser". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2022– via Gale.
  3. 1 2 Penguin Books (2022). "Emily Hauser: Biography" . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 University of Exeter (2018). "Emily Hauser: Biography". University of Exeter: Classics and Ancient History. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  5. ↑ D'Arcy-Jones, Neil (8 July 2016). "A re-telling of the Iliad through the eyes of the Trojan women thanks to former Grammar school girl". Daily Gazette . Retrieved 3 December 2022– via Gale.
  6. 1 2 "Ivy League scholar visits hometown for launch of debut novel". East Anglian Daily Times . 5 February 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2022– via Gale.
  7. ↑ "Emily Hauser (1999-01)". Orwell Park School. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  8. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Emily Hauser. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  9. ↑ "Alice Derby Lang (1944) | Office of the Secretary and Vice President for University Life". secretary.yale.edu. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  10. ↑ "The Plot of Zeus". The Center for Hellenic Studies. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  11. ↑ "Research". Emily Hauser. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  12. ↑ University of Exeter. "Authoress: Gendering Poets in Ancient Greece". University of Exeter: Classics and Ancient History. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Emily Hauser". Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies (Interview with Emma Bridges) (7) – via The Open University.
  14. 1 2 3 Hughes, Sarah (18 February 2017). "Rome is mere ancient history as Greece comes roaring back". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  15. ↑ The apple appears on the cover of the hardback edition.
  16. ↑ Wiener, James. ""For the Most Beautiful"–A New Novel – World History et cetera" . Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  17. ↑ Penguin Books (2018). "Emily Hauser: For the Immortal". Penguin Books. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  18. ↑ Reviews of Reading Poetry, Writing Genre English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship
  19. ↑ Reviews of For the Most Beautiful
  20. ↑ Reviews of For the Winner
    • Lantz, Catherine (15 September 2017). "For the Winner: A Novel of Jason and the Argonauts". Library Journal . 142 (15) – via EBSCOhost.
    • "For the Winner". Historical Novels Review. No. 81. Historical Novels Society. August 2017.
  21. ↑ Reviews of For the Immortal
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