Classics Professor Melissa Mueller Celebrated New Book on Sappho and Homer with Symposium, Lecture

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Melissa Mueller, professor of Classics, recently participated in two events related to the publication of her book, Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading. 

On Thursday, April 11, Mueller delivered the 2024 John C. Rouman Lecture at the University of New Hampshire, and on Saturday, April 20, she participated in a one-day symposium called “Reparative Sappho” at Yale University.

The symposium has been organized around her new book, and featured Mueller, invited guests from Barnard/Columbia, Chicago, UCLA and WFU, and faculty and students from several Yale departments (Classics, Comparative Literature, Humanities, NELC), who engaged in readings of the book and the poetry it covers.