Dennis Washburn

Dennis Washburn is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. He is author of The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction and Translating Mount Fuji, and has edited several volumes: Word and Image in Japanese Cinema; Converting Cultures; and the forthcoming The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. In addition to his scholarly work he has translated several works of fiction, including Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai, Mizukami Tsutomu’s The Temple of the Wild Geese, Tsushima Yuko’s Laughing Wolf, and a new version of The Tale of Genji, forthcoming from Norton.

Margaret Williamson

Margaret Williamson teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College.  She is the author of Sappho’s Immortal Daughters (Harvard, 1995), and co-editor of The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece (Routledge, 1998).  For over twenty years she has worked with the London-based playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker on the Greek texts of plays by Sophocles and Euripides, leading to versions by Wertenbaker staged in the UK, USA, Canada and Greece.  In Fall 2012 she lectured and gave classes on translation as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.  She is currently working on a book entitled Creole Classics, on the cultural politics of classical learning, with particular references to the classical names given to slaves on Jamaican plantations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Pramit Chaudhuri

Pramit Chaudhuri received his B.A. (Hons.) in classical literature and philosophy (Literae Humaniores) from Balliol College, Oxford; an M.A. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute; and a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature from Yale University. He specializes in the Latin poetry of the early Roman empire, set within a broader study of classical epic and tragedy. His current work explores literary depictions of “theomachy” (conflicts between humans and gods) and their mediation of issues such as religious conflict, philosophical iconoclasm, political struggle, and poetic rivalry. Chaudhuri also studies the reception of classical antiquity in early modern epic and tragedy and in High Renaissance art.