Melody wauke

Graduate Student

maw2277@columbia.edu

606 Hamilton Hall

Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 pm -3:30 pm, or by appointment

Interests

• Greek Tragedy

• Epic poetry

• Greek and Latin paleography & manuscript studies

• Modern Greek language and literature

Melody received her BA in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. After graduation, she lived in Greece for one year while she taught English to junior high and high school students as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. While in Greece, she also developed an interest in the language and literature of modern Greece and its connection to its ancient past. After returning to the US, she completed her MA in Classics at Notre Dame, where she wrote a thesis on the sibling relationship in Sophocles’ Antigone.

Melody is interested in Greek poetry, with a special focus on tragedy and epic and the portrayal of women in these works. In addition, she enjoys exploring the commentary traditions of Greek and Latin texts through the study of manuscripts.
 
Outside of Classics, Melody enjoys cooking, traveling, and watching movies.