Susan Stephens

Stephens' current research is on the political and social dimensions of Hellenistic Literature. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, a study that situates Alexandrian poetry in its Greek and Egyptian political context, appeared in 2003. Trained as a papyrologist, she has published literary and documentary texts belonging to the Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy. 45) and the Yale (P. Yale II) collections, and with Jack Winkler edited Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments (Princeton 1995). She is currently writing a book on Callimachus, and, with Phiroze Vasunia, editing a volume on Classics and National Cultures. Her interests include Greek oratory, Hellenistic literature and its later reception and the social context of the ancient Greek fiction writing.

publications

• "Who Read Ancient Novels?" The Search for the Ancient Novel, edited by James Tatum (Johns Hopkins Press (1994) 405-418.
• "Writing Epic in the Ptolemaic Court," Hellenistica Groningana 4 (2000) 195-215
• "Commenting on Fragments" in The Classical Commentary: History, Practices, Theory edited by R. Gibson and Christina Kraus (Brill, 2002) 67-88.
• "Rereading Callimachus' Aetia Fragment 1", with B. Acosta-Hughes, Classical Philology 97 (2002) 238-55.
• "Egyptian Callimachus," Callimaque. Entretiens sur L'Antiquité classique, 48 (Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2002), 235-70.
• Rituals in Ink. A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome, held at Stanford University, edited with Alessandro Barchiesi and Jörg Rüpke (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003.