Pauline LeVen

Pauline LeVen is Associate Professor in the Classics Department. She works primarily on Greek literature, music, and culture. Her first book The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late-Classical Greek Lyric Poetry was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014 and was one of the recipients of Yale College’s Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. Her new book, Music and Metamorphosis in Greek and Latin Myths, is also under contract with CUP and examines questions of aesthetics and ontology. Pauline teaches a graduate seminar on Beauty and undergraduate classes on a range of topics, from “Helen after Troy” to “myth, fiction, and science-fiction”.