Page duBois explained

Page DuBois
Occupation:	Classicist
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley
Discipline:	Classics, Cultural Studies
Workplaces:	University of California, San Diego

Page DuBois is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego.^[1] She is known for her work in Ancient Greek literature, feminist theory and psychoanalysis.^[1]

Career

DuBois received her BA from Stanford University, and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.^[2] She is now professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she is part of the literature department and the Center for Hellenic Studies.^{[3] [2]}

She gave the 2018 James W. Poultney Memorial Lecture at the University of California, San Diego.^[4]

Publications

• History, Rhetorical Description and the Epic: From Homer to Spenser.  Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1982.
• Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Prehistory of the Great Chain  of Being. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982.
• 'A Disturbance of Syntax at the Gates of Rome,' Stanford Literature Review, 2 (1985): 185–208.
• Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
• 'Inscription, the Law, and the Comic Body,' Métis: Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien, 3 (1988): 69–84.
• Il corpo come metafora: Rappresentazioni della donna nella Grecia antica. Rome: Laterza, 1990.
• Torture and Truth. New York and London: Routledge, 1991. ^[5]
• Sappho Is Burning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ^[6]
• Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. New York: New York University Press, 2001. ^{[7] [8]}
• Slaves and Other Objects. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Slavery: Antiquity and its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns). I.B.Tauris, 2009.
• Out of Athens: the new ancient Greeks. Harvard University Press, 2010. ^[9]
• A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism. Harvard University Press, 2014. ^[10]
• Sappho (Understanding Classics). I.B.Tauris, 2015. ^[6]

External links

• UC San Diego page for Page DuBois

Notes and References

1. Web site: Page duBois. literature.ucsd.edu. en. 2018-08-15.
2. Web site: Page duBois. helleniccenter.ucsd.edu. en-US. 2018-08-15.
3. Web site: Faculty. literature.ucsd.edu. en. 2018-08-15.
4. Web site: The 2018 James W. Poultney Memorial Lecture: Page duBois (University of California, San Diego) Classics. classics.jhu.edu. en-US. 2018-08-15.
5. Gold. Barbara K.. 1993. Review of: Torture and Truth.. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.
6. News: SAPPHO IS BURNING - Classics for All. Classics for All. 2018-08-19. en-GB.
7. News: Nonfiction Book Review: TROJAN HORSES: Saving the Classics from Conservatives by Page duBois, Author TROJAN HORSES: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. PublishersWeekly.com. 2018-08-19. en.
8. Web site: Trojan Horses Saving the Classics from Conservatives Books - NYU Press NYU Press. nyupress.org. en. 2018-08-19.
9. Web site: Out of Athens — Page duBois Harvard University Press. www.hup.harvard.edu. en. 2018-08-19.
10. Geslani. Marko. January 2017. DuBois, Page. A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 199 pp. $31.50 (cloth).. The Journal of Religion. en. 97. 1. 110–112. 10.1086/689022. 0022-4189.