Kirk Ormand, PhD

Affiliations:

Classics

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, United States

Area:

sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry, Sophocles, Lucan, and the Greek Novel

Website:

http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/classics/faculty_detail.dot?id=21063

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Bio:

Kirk Ormand has been at Oberlin since 2001, His research specialties include the construction of sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry (especially Hesiod), Sophocles,Lucan, and the Greek Novel. He regularly teaches Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, Classical Mythology, and intermediate and advanced courses in ancient Greek and Latin. Praeger Press published Kirk's most recent book at the end of 2008, Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Kirk is also working on a book on the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and archaic Greek culture, and is the editor of the forthcoming Companion to Sophocles from Wiley/Blackwell.