Leslie Kurke
Leslie Kurke is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988.Awards
- 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy, Cornell University Press, 1991,
- Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998,
- , Princeton University Press, 1999,
- , Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003,
- Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose, Princeton University Press, 2011,
