The Department extends its warmest congratulations to recent Ph.D. Cat Lambert, the 2022 Winkler Memorial Prize graduate winner for her essay "Lucian’s Queer Book User in the Adversus Indoctum." This prize, founded in honor of legendary Classicist Jack Winkler, encourages innovative work in marginal areas of the Classics. In Cat's own words, "Some of my fondest memories while at Columbia include engaging undergraduate students with Jack's work in various contexts, such as courses on Daphnis and Chloe, classical myth, and "Queer Classics". My essay, "Lucian's Queer Book User in the Adversus Indoctum," represents the fusion of two core interests and methods that I have long kept siloed: book history and queer studies." In her prize-winning essay, Cat draws on her expertise in both fields to craft a bibliographically queer reading of Lucian's satire, and the ways in which Lucian twists and subverts his time's dominant, hegemonic perspectives.
You can read the full announcement of this year's Winkler prize here.
