Emily Greenwood

Emily Greenwood is a Professor of Classics and African-American Studies and Chair of the Department of Classics at Yale University. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek historiography, particularly Thucydides and Herodotus, and the development of History as a genre and a modern critical discipline. She also explores the appropriation and reinvention of Greco-Roman classical antiquity from the late nineteenth century to the present.[1]

Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and African-American Studies at Yale University

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 is Professor of Classics.[5]

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).[6]

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".[7] At the same conference, a panel was organised in honour of her work.[8] In 2019 she gave the inaugaral 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”.[9] She is a general editor of the Cambridge University Press series 'Classics after Antiquity'.[10]

Bibliography

Monographs
  • Thucydides and the Shaping of History (London: Duckworth, 2006)
  • Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon, ed. with Barbara Graziosi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories, ed. with Elizabeth Irwin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Classics: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Publications, forthcoming 2020)

Articles and book chapters
  • 'Middle Passages: Mediating Classics and Radical Philology in Marlene Nourbese Philip and Derek Walcott', Classicisms in the Black Atlantic, edited by Ian Moyer, Adam Lecznar, and Heidi Morse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) pp. 29–56
  • 'Thucydideses: Authorship, Anachrony, and Anachronism in Greek historiography', Classical Receptions Journal 12/1. Special Issue on Anachronism, 2020, pp. 32–45
  • ‘Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English’, The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 5: 1880-2000, edited by Kenneth Haynes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) pp. 576–607
  • 'Fictions of Dialogue in Thucydides', The End of Dialogue in Antiquity, edited by Simon Goldhill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

References
  1. 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. 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. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  6. "Previous winners – Runciman Award". runcimanaward.org. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
  7. "2018 Annual Meeting Program | CAAS-CW". Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  8. "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.
  9. "Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series : "Narrative and Social Justice" with Emily Greenwood". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  10. "Classics after Antiquity". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  • Faculty page, Department of Classics, Yale University
  • Faculty page, Department of African-American Studies, Yale University
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