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Page DuBois is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego.[1] She is known for her work in Ancient Greek literature, feminist theory and psychoanalysis.[1]

Career

DuBois received her BA from Stanford University, and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.[2] She is now professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego,[1] where she is part of the literature department and the Center for Hellenic Studies.[3][2]

She gave the 2018 James W. Poultney Memorial Lecture at the University of California, San Diego.[4]

Publications

  • History, Rhetorical Description and the Epic: From Homer to Spenser.  Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1982. ISBN 9780859910934
  • Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Prehistory of the Great Chain  of Being. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982. ISBN 9780472081530
  • 'A Disturbance of Syntax at the Gates of Rome,' Stanford Literature Review, 2 (1985): 185–208.
  • Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN 9780226167572
  • 'Inscription, the Law, and the Comic Body,' Métis: Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien, 3 (1988): 69–84.
  • Il corpo come metafora: Rappresentazioni della donna nella Grecia antica. Rome: Laterza, 1990. ISBN 9788842035442
  • Torture and Truth. New York and London: Routledge, 1991. ISBN 9780415902137[5]
  • Sappho Is Burning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 9780226167558[6]
  • Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. New York: New York University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780814769898[7][8]
  • Slaves and Other Objects. University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN 9780226167879
  • Slavery: Antiquity and its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns). I.B.Tauris, 2009. ISBN 9781845119263
  • Out of Athens: the new ancient Greeks. Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780674035584[9]
  • A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism. Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780674728837[10]
  • Sappho (Understanding Classics). I.B.Tauris, 2015. ISBN 9781784533601[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Page duBois". literature.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  2. ^ a b "Page duBois". helleniccenter.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  3. ^ "Faculty". literature.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  4. ^ "The 2018 James W. Poultney Memorial Lecture: Page duBois (University of California, San Diego) | Classics". classics.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  5. ^ Gold, Barbara K. (1993). "Review of: Torture and Truth". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  6. ^ a b "SAPPHO IS BURNING - Classics for All". Classics for All. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  7. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: TROJAN HORSES: Saving the Classics from Conservatives by Page duBois, Author TROJAN HORSES: Saving the Classics from Conservatives</PROD $19.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-8147-1946-6". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  8. ^ "Trojan Horses | Saving the Classics from Conservatives | Books - NYU Press | NYU Press". nyupress.org. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  9. ^ "Out of Athens — Page duBois | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  10. ^ Geslani, Marko (January 2017). "DuBois, Page. A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 199 pp. $31.50 (cloth)". The Journal of Religion. 97 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1086/689022. ISSN 0022-4189.

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