Columbia University Faculty

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(212)-853-8241
da2500@columbia.edu
503 Fayerweather Hall

History and anthropology of Modern Greece; State operation; Political Imagination; Architecture and public space; Classical reception in authoritarian regimes; Greek film; Museum ethnography and curatorial studies

Steven Brandwood

212-854-3902

sb4389@columbia.edu

610 Hamilton Hall

Kathy Hannah Eden

(212) 854-6532+1
khe1@columbia.edu
401A Philosophy

Ancient and Renaissance Literary Theory; Renaissance Humanism; History of Hermeneutics; the Rhetorical Tradition

Chrysanthe Filippardos

(212)-854-9232
cf2820@columbia.edu
617A Hamilton Hall

Teaching Heritage Languages; Second Language Acquisition

Translanguaging; Language Contact; Immigrant Narratives.

Marcus Folch

212-853-8016

mf2664@columbia.edu
617C Hamilton Hall

Greek Literature, Ancient Philosophy, Rhetoric; Ancient Theories and Practices of Performance; Genre; Gender; Punishment and Incarceration in Antiquity.

(Photograph by Isaia Crosson)

Carmela Vircillo Franklin

(212) 854-5687
cvf2@columbia.edu
612 Hamilton Hall

On leave, Fall 2026

Medieval Latin literature; Transmission of texts and manuscript studies; Greek and Latin hagiography; Study of the Bible in the early Middle Ages; Early medieval Rome; Bede

Stathis Gourgouris

(212) 854-9638
ssg93@columbia.edu
608 Hamilton Hall

Literary theory, modernist poetics, Enlightenment thought, pre-Socratic philosophy, experimental music, and contemporary Greek poetry

Joseph Howley

(212) 854-3902
617 Hamilton Hall

Classics@columbia.edu

Imperial Latin prose; Imperial Greek literature (the “second sophistic”); Antiquarian, miscellaneous, and encyclopedic writing; Intellectual history; History of the book and of reading Media history and studies; Early modern printing of classical texts, Phonography and recordings of Greek and Latin.

(Photograph by Isaia Crosson)

Elizabeth Irwin

212-854-5684

ei42@columbia.edu

617A Hamilton Hall

Herodotus; Thucydides; Old Comedy; Political and Ethical Debates of the later Fifth Century; Athenian Empire; Historicizing readings of Athenian Drama and of Plato; Archaic Greek Poetry and History; Pindar and Bacchylides; The Reception of Classical Athens in Greek Writers of the Imperial Period (Augustan and later)

Nikolas P. Kakkoufa

(212) 854-9232
nk2776@columbia.edu
617E Hamilton Hall

Modern Greek Poetry; Gender, Sexuality & the body; Reception in Modern Greek & Comparative Literature; Aestheticism; The image of the city in Literature; Second Language Acquisition.

John Ma

(212) 854-5682
jtm2179@columbia.edu
611 Hamilton Hall

Ancient history, especially Greek, and especially Hellenistic; Greek epigraphy; material culture of the ancient Greek world; Achaemenid empire; historical geography

Paraskevi Martzavou

(212) 854-1699

pm2839@columbia.edu

610 Hamilton Hall

Greek History and archaeology; Greek epigraphy; Roman Greece; the sociology of religious change

Georgios Spiliotopoulos

212-854-2726

gs3460@columbia.edu

604 Hamilton Hall

Greek: Attic tragedy, Homeric poetry, papyrology. Latin: Roman novel.

Elizabeth Scharffenberger

(212) 854-7822

es136@columbia.edu

610 Hamilton Hall

On leave, Fall 2026

Ancient Greek and Roman drama; Comic literature (from antiquity to the present day); Intellectual history; Greek Prose Style; Reception studies; Classics in translation

Seth Schwartz

(212) 851-5907
srs166@columbia.edu
405 Fayerweather

Social History of Jew in Antiquity; Palestinian Archaeology and Epigraphy; Historiography; Apocalypticism

Deborah Steiner

(212) 854-4188
dts8@columbia.edu
604 Hamilton Hall

On leave, Academic Year 2026-2027

Archaic Greek poetry; Greek lyric; Greek mythology; and the visual arts

Brett L. Stine

(212)-854-3902
bls2187@columbia.edu

604 Hamilton Hall

Archaic Greek Poetry; Critical Theory, Affectivity, and Embodiment; The Poetics of Bodies; Ancient Literary Criticism; Papyrology, Manuscript Studies, and Book History

Rosalie Stoner

(212)-854-3902
mrs2374@columbia.edu
617D Hamilton Hall

Ideals and practices of education in the Roman world; The Roman rhetorical tradition from the Republican and Imperial periods through Late Antiquity; Early Christian transformations of classical traditions; Competition and tension between rhetoric and philosophy; Consolation literature

Karen Van Dyck

(212) 854-2189
vandyck@columbia.edu
515 Hamilton Hall

Modern Greek literature; Women and Gender; Translation and Reception; Diaspora

Katharina Volk

(212) 854-5683
kv2018@columbia.edu
614 Hamilton Hall

Latin literature of the late Republican and early Imperial periods; Roman philosophy, esp. Cicero; intellectual history

Gareth Williams

(212) 854-2850

gdw5@columbia.edu

615 Hamilton Hall

Classical Latin poetry, especially elegy; Silver Latin poetry; Senecan prose; Renaissance humanism

(Photograph by Isaia Crosson)

Barnard College Faculty

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Rosa Andújar

randujar@barnard.edu, rma2002@columbia.edu

Ancient Greek Drama (Tragedy, Satyr Play, Comedy), Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, Reception of Greek drama in postcolonial and global contexts, Engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity across the Americas

Rosa Andújar

Darcy Krasne

dk3009@columbia.edu

Late Republican and early Imperial Latin poetry (especially Augustan and Flavian); Greek and Roman mythology, Intertextuality, Onomastics, and The epic tradition

Darcy Krasne

Ellen Morris

(212) 854-6023
emorris@barnard.edu.
efm2110@columbia.edu
219B Milbank Hall

On leave, Fall 2026

Ancient Egyptian social history; International relations in the Late Bronze Age; Imperialism in the ancient Near East; Sexuality and performance; Divine Kingship; Revolts, insurgency, and societal unrest

Ellen Morris

Nancy Worman

(212) 854-3001
nworman@barnard.edu
nw51@columbia.edu
217 Milbank Hall

Ancient literary criticism and literary theory, Greek drama and oratory, Performance and the body, and Modernist reception

Nancy Worman

Core Lecturers

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Valeria Spacciante

vs2716@columbia.edu

Imperial Greek Literature; The Greek Novel; Classical Reception; Classics in Pop Culture; Canon Formation and Canonicity

Valeria Spacciante

Affiliated Faculty

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Christopher Baswell

(212) 854-9011
cbaswell@barnard.edu
410 Barnard Hall

Medieval literature and manuscript studies; Classical tradition; disability studies

Richard Billows

(212) 854-4486
rab4@columbia.edu
322M Fayerweather

Ancient Greek and Roman History and Greek epigraphy

Francesco De Angelis

(212) 854-4723
fda2101@columbia.edu
826 Schermerhorn

Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art and archaeology

Holger A. Klein

(212) 854-3230
hak56@columbia.edu
931 Schermerhorn

Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture; Cross-cultural exchange; Cult of relics; Material culture.

Wolfgang Mann

wrm4@columbia.edu

Ioannis Mylonopoulos

(212) 854-0170
jm3193@columbia.edu
826 Schermerhorn Hall

Greek and Roman art; Architecture and Archaeology; Modern Greek art; Greek myths in 18th century opera; Greek myths in European Renaissance and Baroque painting