Richard Armstrong

Richard H. Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classical Studies in the Honors College and The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston. He received his BA from the University of Chicago and his M. Phil. and Ph. D. from Yale University. He has published extensively on the reception of ancient culture, translation studies, and the history of psychoanalysis. He is the author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell) and coeditor with Paul Allen Miller of the Ohio State UP series, Classical Memories / Modern Identities. His forthcoming publications include Companion to the Translation of Greek and Latin Epic (Blackwell) with A. Lianeri, and Theory and Theatricality: Classical Drama in the Age of Grand Hysteria (OUP).