Professor Emerita

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Sappho / Greek tragedy / Homeric Hymns / literary translation

BA Colorado College
PhD University of California, Santa Cruz

• GVSU Women’s Commission Women’s Impact Award, 2014
• GVSU Glenn A. Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship and service, 2011

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2023.

• Audio recording: poems and fragments read by theatre artist and award-winning audiobook narrator Kate Reading (Cambridge University Press).
• Interview: Radical Philosophy radio program on 3CR with Beth Matthews (Melbourne, Australia), 2023.
• TEDed talk: The surprising origins of the word “lesbian," 2021.

Euripides' Medea: A New Translation, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

• Podcast: 3 of Ancient Greece's Most Fascinating Women, Classical Wisdom with Anya Leonard, 2024.
• Staged: Heritage Theatre Group (director Karen Libman), July 12-21, 2012.

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

• Staged: GVSU (director Karen Libman), April 18-20, 2009; Jenison High School (director Todd Avery), November 18-21, 2009. 

The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes. University of California Press, 2004.

• Interview: Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Classical Wisdom with Anya Leonard, 2024. 

Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (translations). University of California Press, 1991.

Faculty & Staff