Skip to main content

You may be using a Web browser that does not support standards for accessibility and user interaction. Find out why you should upgrade your browser for a better experience of this and other standards-based sites...

Dartmouth Home  Search  Index

Dartmouth HomeSearchIndex

Head-dart-logo
Site-logo-inside
Space
Space
Space Space

Margaret Williamson

Associate Professor of Classics, and of Comparative Literature

114_margaret_williamson

Departments and Programs

  • Classics
  • Comparative Literature
  • Women's and Gender Studies

Related Links

Contact Information

Email: margaret.williamson@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2036
Office: 6086 Reed Hall

Education

B.A. University of Cambridge; M.A. University of Toronto; University College, London; Kings College, London; Ph.D. University of London

Areas of Expertise

Classical literature; women writers; Sappho; classical tradition

Selected Works

  • The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, with S. Blundell, (1998).
  • 'Eros the Blacksmith', in Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self Representation in the Classical Tradition, L. Foxhall and J. B. Salmon (eds.), 1998.
  • 'Sappho and the Other Woman', in Re-reading Sappho, E. Greene (ed.), (1996).
  • 'Sappho and the Other Woman', [another version] in Language and Gender, S. Mills (ed.), 1995.
  • Sappho's Immortal Daughters, (1995).

Current Projects

Reception of Greek lyric in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; classical tradition in the Caribbean