Laura Slatkin

Laura Slatkin is Professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, specializing in ancient Greek/Roman poetry, wisdom traditions, and cultural poetics. She authored The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays (Harvard, 2011) and co-edited Histories of Post-War French Thought: Antiquities.

Her courses include:

• Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Wisdom Traditions
• Ancient Reflections in a Time of Modern War
• The Iliad and its Legacies in Drama

Honors include:

• NYU Distinguished Teaching Award (2012)
• Fellowships: Columbia Paris Institute (2007), Liguria Center (2009), NYU-Florence (2015)
• Quantrell Teaching Award (University of Chicago)

She served as editor-in-chief of Classical Philology and taught at UC Santa Cruz, Yale, Columbia, and Chicago.