Nancy Felson

Nancy Felson is a Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics (ISBN 978-0-8061-2961-7). She is the author of nearly three dozen^[1] scholarly articles discussing Greek and Latin literature.

Education

Felson received a BA degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1964, and an MA degree from Columbia University in 1965. Her Ph.D., also from Columbia, was based on the thesis Thematic Structure and Figures of Speech in Pindar.

Publications

• Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics in Homer's Odyssey, Princeton University Press (1994); paperback edition, University of Oklahoma Press (1997)
• Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Rowman and Littlefield: 2000) (co-editor with Thomas Falkner and David Konstan)
• Semiotics and Classical Studies, Arethusa 16.1/2 (1983), 1-275 (editor)
• Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth, Classical World 74.2 (October 1980), 1-144 (editor)
• Deixis in Fiction and Performance (co-editor with E. Bakker, J. S. Clay, and J. Klein)

References

1. http://www.classics.uga.edu/new/faculty/felson.html Faculty page at the University of Georgia