Emily Wilson (classicist)

Emily Wilson
Wilson in 2015
Born Emily Rose Caroline Wilson
1971 (age 46–47)
Oxford, United Kingdom
Education University of Oxford
Yale University
Occupation Scholar, professor, writer, translator, poet
Children 3
Website www.classics.upenn.edu/people/emily-wilson

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist and Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] She is the author of three books and in 2017 became the first woman to publish a translation of Homer's Odyssey into English.[2]

Life and Career

Wilson "comes from a long line of academics",[3] including both her parents, A. N. Wilson[4] and Katherine Duncan-Jones,[5] her uncle, and her maternal grandparents, including Elsie Duncan-Jones.[3] Her sister is the food writer Bee Wilson.[6]

A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford in 1992 (BA in Literae Humaniores, Classical Literature and Philosophy), she undertook her Masters in English literature 1500-1660 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1994) and her Ph.D. (2001) in Classical and Comparative Literature at Yale University.[1]

In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship (Rome Prize).[7]

Wilson is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement,[8] the London Review of Books,[9] and The New Republic.[10] She is the classics editor for the Norton Antholog[ies] of World Literature and Western Literature.[11][12]

Bibliography

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  • Mocked with death : tragic overliving from Sophocles to Milton. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004.
  • "Found in Translation: Reading the classics with help from the Loeb Library", slate, 15 August 2006.
  • The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint, Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02683-4.
  • Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception., review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.12.62.
  • "The Origins of Foreigners", review of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity By Erich S. Gruen, The New Republic, 24 August 2012.
  • “The Trouble With Speeches: The Birth of Political Rhetoric in an Ancient Democracy”, review of Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece by Ian Worthington, The New Republic, 27 April 2013.
  • The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy by Thomas Kohn, review, Classical Journal, 7 September 2013.
  • "Homer's Iliad. Translated by Anthony Verity", review, Translation and Literature volume 22, issue 2; 2013. doi:10.3366/tal.2013.0116.
  • Across the Pond – An Englishman’s view of America by Terry Eagleton, review, The Times Literary Supplement, 30 August 2013.
  • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca, Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0199926640.
  • “Slut-Shaming Helen of Troy”, review of Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell, The New Republic, 26 April 2014.
  • In Plain Sight: The life and lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies, review, The Times Literary Supplement, 21 November 2014.
  • Seneca, the fat-cat philosopher, review, The Guardian, 27 March 2015.
  • The Secret of Rome’s Success, review of SPQR by Mary Beard, The Atlantic, December 2015.

Translations

  • Six Tragedies, Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0192807069.
  • The Greek Plays, Modern Library/Random House, 2016. [Wilson translated "Helen", "Bacchae", "Trojan Women" and "Electra" in this volume]
  • The Odyssey (Homer), W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. ISBN 978-0-393-08905-9.

Critical studies and reviews of Wilson's work

The Odyssey (2017)
  • Burrow, Colin (April 26, 2018). "Light through the fog". London Review of Books. 40 (8): 3–7.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Emily R. Wilson, University of Pennsylvania.
  2. ↑ Mason, Wyatt (2017-11-02). "The First Woman to Translate the 'Odyssey' Into English". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  3. 1 2 Wyatt Mason, "The First Woman to Translate the 'Odyssey' into English", New York Times, 2 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Wesley Yang "'Highbrow Fight Club'", New York Observer, 20 December 2004
  5. ↑ Matthew Reisz "The family business", Times Higher Education, 26 July 2012
  6. ↑ "Beatrice D. Wilson (I18438)", Stanford.edu
  7. ↑ "American Academy of Rome; Fellows – Affiliated Fellows – Residents 1990–2010". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Search TLS Online Archive". Timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  9. ↑ "Search · LRB". lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  10. ↑ https://newrepublic.com/authors/emily-wilson.
  11. ↑ "The Norton Anthology of Western Literature". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "The Norton Anthology of World Literature". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
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