Scholar Sunday | Prof. Emily Wilson
Prof. Emily Wilson completed her undergraduate degree (1994; Classics) and Master of Philosophy degree at Oxford (1996; English Literature 1500-1660). She then attended Yale, receiving a PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2001. Over her career, Emily has received numerous honours and fellowships, including the Rome Prize NEH Fellowship for the Humanities in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (2006). In November 2017, she became the first woman to translate Homer’s Odyssey into English in a version that is rapidly gaining popularity among Classical literature scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
Research Interests:
Tragedy.
Epic.
Poetics and literary theory.
Literature and philosophy.
Reception of classical literature, especially in the Renaissance.
Gender.
Genre.
Selected Publications:
Odyssey. Verse translation and introduction. (November 2017, Norton).
The Greek Plays. Translations of four tragedies of Euripides: Bacchae, Helen, Electra, and Trojan Women (2016, Random House).
The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca. (2014, Oxford UP).
Classics editor, third and subsequent editions of the Norton Anthology of World Literature and Western Lit. (2012 onwards).
Six Tragedies of Seneca. Translation, with introduction and notes (2010, Oxford UP).
The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007, Harvard UP).
Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004, John Hopkins UP).
To see Emily’s full University profile page, click here. Alternatively, find her on Twitter @EmilyRCWilson.
