Lefkowitz, Mary (Rosenthal)
LEFKOWITZ, Mary (Rosenthal)
LEFKOWITZ, Mary (Rosenthal). American, b. 1935. Genres: Classics. Career: Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, since 1979 (Part-time Instructor in Greek, 1960-63; Assistant Professor, 1963-69; Associate Professor, 1969-75; Professor of Greek and Latin, 1975-79; Chairman, 1970-72, 1975-78, 1981-87; Director of Educational Research, 1978-79; Director of Pew Foundation Grant, since 1986). Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1978; Visiting Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, 1979-80, Pembroke College, Oxford, 1986-87, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1991; Honorary Fellow, St. Hilda's College, 1994-; Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1957-58; American Council of Learned Socs. Fellow, 1972-73; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1979-80, 1991. L.H.D. Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., 1996. Publications: The Victory Ode: An Introduction, 1976; Heroines and Hysterics, 1981; The Lives of the Greek Poets, 1981; Women in Greek Myth, 1986; First-Person Fictions: Pindar's Poetic "I," 1991; Not Out of Africa, 1996. EDITOR: (with M.B. Fant) Women in Greece and Rome, 1977, rev. as Women's Life in Greece and Rome, 1982, 2nd ed, 1992; (with G.M. Rogers) Black Athena Revisited. Address: Dept. of Classical Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203, U.S.A. Online address: mlefkowitz@wellesley.edu