Erika Weiberg

Dr. Erika L. Weiberg is an expert on Greek poetry, especially epic and drama, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and literary theory, reception, and translation studies. She is currently an assistant professor of Classical Studies at Duke University, where she teaches classes on Greek language and literature. She has also taught at Florida State University. She received her PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and her BA from Davidson College. She has published articles and book chapters on Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and is working on articles on the Odyssey and Herodotus. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, in addition to the Center for Hellenic Studies. Her next project investigates the reception of the Medea and the Argonauts story in contemporary writing about gender and sexuality. You can find out more about her research and teaching here: proferikaweiberg.com.