Barnard College Department of Classics and Ancient Studies

Nancy Worman

Nancy Worman received her PhD at Princeton and has held positions at Rutgers and Yale. At Barnard she teaches courses in Greek literature and in the program in comparative literature, which she has also run. She specializes in Greek drama and oratory, ancient rhetoric, and literary theory.

She has a book due out in April 2008 on the language of insult and appetite (Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens), and she is now engaged in a new project that traces how metaphors centered on the body and its senses organize ideas about style in rhetorical treatises, literary critical discussions, and programmatic passages in poetry. She is also working on Virginia Woolf's reading of Sophocles' Electra and has developed a new interest in the modernist reception of ancient literature.

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