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Lesley Dean-Jones is Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts. She received her B.A. from University College London in 1977 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. Prior to joining UT Austin, she taught at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York.
Her research focuses on Ancient Medicine, Ancient Philosophy, Greek Literature, and Women in Antiquity. She has published extensively on Greek literature, history, philosophy and medicine, with particular expertise in the Hippocratic Corpus and Aristotle's biological works. Her current research project examines the Letters of Plato, while other interests include the early professionalization of Greek medicine and the effects of literacy.
Her scholarly work demonstrates consistent engagement with interdisciplinary approaches connecting medical history, philosophy, and gender studies in the ancient world. The publications reflect deep textual analysis combined with cultural and historical contextualization of ancient medical thought.
- WCC Award for best article written from a feminist perspective (1994)
- Fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, Institute for the Humanities at University of Michigan, Loeb Foundation, Humboldt Foundation, and University of Exeter
- National Science Foundation grant to host the Colloquium Hippocraticum (2008)
Professor Dean-Jones has directed numerous Ph.D. theses and served as the first Director of the Classics Research Network since June 2007. She was President of the Society for Ancient Medicine from 2000-2006. Her teaching portfolio includes graduate seminars on Aristotle's Biology and Plagues and Pandemics in the Ancient World, as well as undergraduate courses on Classical Mythology and Greek literature.
She is affiliated with both the Center for European Studies and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UT Austin, demonstrating her commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.
