Graduate Students

Ancient performances via literary and epigraphical sources

Ancient legal history & political philosophy; Plato, Xenophon and Cyrenaics.

Literary form, metapoetics, psychoanalysis, critical theory

Greek religion and festivals; calendars, time-reckoning, and temporalities

Greek lyric; Herodotus; travel narratives and geographic writing; ancient urbanism; historical cartography; papyrology

Greek language and literature, especially archaic poetry and Herodotus; phenomenology and ritualization; psychoanalysis.

Roman household archaeology; the production and use of crafts and textiles in the ancient world; 3D reconstruction and digital humanities projects. Dissertation is on the domestic assemblage from the Villa della Pisanella.

Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; gender and power; critical and archaeological theory; nationalist archaeologies; archaeological and classical reception

Bioarchaeology; Aegean prehistory; mortuary archaeology; identity and embodiment

Enslaved people and Identity; Interdisciplinary approaches utilizing material culture and literature; Labor; Social History; Domestic Archaeology; Security; Pompeii

Imperial Greek literature; ancient novels; eros and identity

Homer and Homeric reception, Jews in antiquity, Byzantium, book history, histories of philology

wmccle@berkeley.edu

Epic & lyric poetry; archaic Greek cultural history; ancient drama, particularly Euripides; theories of performance & embodiment; reception; folklore & oral traditions

conventions of lyric poetry; Augustan literature; narratology; speech representation

Greek and Roman tragedy; race, gender, and sexuality in drama and epic; ancient performance; choral bodies; materiality

Aegean prehistory; ceramic analysis; petrography; linear B; GIS

Early Iron Age Greek Archaeology, Greek Colonization, Mobility, Trade, Pottery Studies, AutoCAD/GIS and Spatial Analysis

My focus is on Ptolemaic Egypt and, more specifically, the development of Red Sea trade in the Hellenistic period. This principally involves the study of Hellenistic economies, especially their financial systems and mechanisms of long-distance trade, through papyrology, epigraphy, and numismatics. I am also interested in the role of climate and climate change on the development of Red Sea trade and Hellenistic economies more broadly.

Literary Eco-Criticism; Hellenistic Poetry; Post-Humanist Philosophy; Critical University Studies; History of Classics; Lucian

Aegean prehistory; Aegean art and archaeology; mortuary archaeology; landscape and place-making; wall painting