Christopher Krebs
Associate Professor of the Classics
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Christopher B. Krebs studied classics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel (1. Staatsexamen 2000, Ph.D. 2003), and Oxford (M.St. 2002). He was a member of an interdisciplinary research project at Kiel and a lecturer at University College (Oxford) before joining the Classics faculty in 2004, where he served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies from 2005 to 2007. In the spring of 2007 he lectured as the professeur invité at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. In 2008/9 he was the APA fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich (on which see his article in the TLS.)
He has published a monograph on Tacitus' Germania and its reception in the 15th century ("Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus' Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel"), and is currently completing a broader study of its reception from the 15th to the 20th century. Other long-term projects and interests focus on Caesar and Sallust in particular, Greek and Roman historiography in general, Latin lexicography, and Classical Traditions.
Prof. Krebs has organized and chairs with Christopher Johnson a seminar on Classical Traditions at the Humanities Center; together with F. Schironi and R. Thomas they hosted a conference on "The Reception of Odysseus in Literature, Art, and Music" (at Harvard Humanities Center, April 24-25, 2009). He co-organized with Jonas Grethlein, of the University of Heidelberg, a conference, entitled "The historians' 'Plupast.' Embedded images of the Past in Greek and Roman Historiography" in 2006. From 2005 to 2007 he ran a graduate workshop with Nino Luraghi: "The edifice of history."
His teaching interests overlap with his research, but also cover Latin and Greek language, Roman satire and epistolography. In the fall of 2009 he intends to teach a graduate seminar on Latin lexicography. He has received several teaching awards.
(photograph by Kris Snibbe, Harvard News Office)