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Professor Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is currently the Chair of the Department of the Classics at Harvard. A short bio can be found here.
Casey Dué, co-Head Teaching Fellow for this on-line series, is a graduate student in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Her dissertation will focus on the oral tradition of Homeric poetry and the figure of Briseis. She will be the Head Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Core Course "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization" in Fall 2000. She is webmaster for the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature website (www.fas.harvard.edu/~mpc).
Mary Ebbott, the other co-Head Taching Fellow for this series, is a graduate student in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Her publications include "The Wrath of Helen: Self-Blame and Nemesis in the Iliad," in Nine Essays on Homer (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). She was the Head TF for the Core course "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization" in Fall 1999. Her dissertation, "Imagining Illegitimacy in Archaic and Classical Greece" examines the poetics of illegitimacy in ancient Greek narratives about nothoi ('bastards').
Tom Jenkins is a Visiting Professor of Classics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. He has published recently on the manipulation of literacy and orality in the epics of Homer and Ovid; he also maintains a professional interest in distance-education projects, and helped to launch "Homer's Poetic Justice" last spring. In March 1999, he celebrated the opening and immediate closing of his cabaret show "Moonlight on the Ganges: An Evening of the Worst Music Imaginable," featuring ghastly tunes from the 1920s-1940s. CDs are available upon request and a sanity hearing.
Tim O'Sullivan is a graduate student in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a Teaching Fellow for the course "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization."
Miriam Carlisle Stewart is a graduate student in the Department of Classics at Harvard University. Her special research interests include archaic and choral poetry and Bronze Age archaeology. She co-edited the collection Nine Essays on Homer (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), which included her essay, "Homeric Fictions: Pseudo-words in Homer."
Mike Tueller is a graduate student in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a Teaching Fellow for the course "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization."
John Watrous is a graduate student in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a Teaching Fellow for the course "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization." His essay, "Artemis and the Lion: Two Similes in Odyssey 6," appears in Nine Essays on Homer (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).