UC Classics Department - Faculty & Staff


Kathryn J. Gutzwiller - CV Professor of Classics PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977 kathryn.gutzwiller@uc.edu phone: 513-556-1936 fax: 513-556-4366 room: 501 Blegen Research Areas: Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic literature, literary theory.
Biography: Professor Kathryn Gutzwiller works in the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, with a special interest in the Hellenistic period as a transitional period between these two and with special focus on literary criticism, poetry books, and ancient women. She has published widely on Theocritus, Callimachus, Propertius, and other poets, and she is the author of MD+IT Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context MD-IT, which won the 2001 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. She was recently elected to the directorship of the American Philological Association. Her current research projects include a commentary on the epigrammatist Meleager, ecphrastic epigrams, the meaning of the term bucolic, and pastoral and elegy in Vergils MD+IT Eclogue MD-IT 10. She is affiliated faculty with Womens Studies and has taught an interdisciplinary course in literary theory. She regularly teaches a Classical Civilization course on archaic Greece, elementary Greek, a variety of undergraduate courses in Greek and Latin, and Latin and Greek poetry on the graduate level. She has recently taught graduate seminars in Theocritus, Ancient Literary Criticism, the Ancient Novel, Propertius, Menander, and Ovids MD+IT Metamorphoses MD-IT.