FACULTY
Gregory NagyFrancis Jones Professorof Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature gnagy(at)fas.harvard.edu |
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Gregory Nagy served as the elected President of the American Philological Association in the academic year 1990-91. He is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979; second edition, with new Introduction, 1999), which won the Goodwin Award of Merit, American Philological Association, in 1982. Other publications include Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature vol. 33; Harvard University Press, 1974), Greek Mythology and Poetics (Cornell University Press, 1990), Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Homeric Questions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002). He co-edited, with Victor Bers, The Classics In East Europe: From the End of World War II to the Present (American Philological Association Pamphlet Series, 1996); he also co-edited with Stephen A. Mitchell the second 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord, The Singer of Tales (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature vol. 24; Harvard University Press, 2000), co-authoring with Mitchell the new Introduction, pp. vii-xxix; he also co-edited, with Nicole Loraux and Laura Slatkin, Postwar French Thought vol. 3, Antiquities (New York: New Press, 2001). He wrote the introductory chapter of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 1 (ed. G. Kennedy; Cambridge 1989; paperback 1993), pp. 1-77 ("Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry"). He has published over 100 articles, including "The Professional Muse and Models of Prestige in Ancient Greece," Cultural Critique 12 (1989) 133-143 and "The Crisis of Performance," in The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (ed. J. Bender and D. E. Wellbery; Stanford 1990) 43-59, and Homeric Responses (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). His special research interests are archaic Greek literature and oral poetics, and he finds it rewarding to integrate these interests with teaching, especially in his course for Harvard's Core Curriculum, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization." He was Chair of Harvard's undergraduate Literature Concentration from 1989 to 1994. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Chair of the Classics Department. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, while continuing to teach half-time at the Harvard campus in Cambridge as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature.
(photograph by Genevieve Shiffrar)
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