Suzanne Lye, "Design Thinking and Hypertextuality in Homeric Underworld Scenes"

Talk Description: This talk applies theories of design and hypertextuality to Homeric Underworld scenes to explain their structure and functions in epic poetry and beyond.

Short Biography: Suzanne Lye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her A.B. from Harvard University, where she studied organic chemistry and the history of antibiotics. After receiving her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. She is currently a Fellow at UNC's Institute of Arts & Humanities as well as a recipient of the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award, Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship. 

Her first book examines conceptions of the afterlife in ancient Greek Underworld narratives from Homer to Lucian and is under contract at Oxford University Press. Her next book project is on women's anger and magic. She has published articles on ancient epic, ancient magic and religion, ancient representations of gender and ethnicity, ancient and modern pedagogy, and Classical reception. Additionally, she has contributed to several digital humanities initiatives, including the CHS's Homer Multitext Project. Currently, she is serving her third and final year as the co-chair of the Women's Classical Caucus and serves on the Board of Directors for both the Society for Classical Studies and the Asian & Asian American Classical Caucus.

This talk will not be available on zoom and will not be recorded.