The External Advisory Board meets annually to review Faculty Fellowship proposals and to select the Faculty Fellows for the next academic year.
Emily Greenwood
Professor of the Classics and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Emily Greenwood studied Classics at Cambridge University, where she gained her BA, M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. After finishing her Ph.D. she was a research fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (2000–2002). Since then, she has held academic appointments at the University of St Andrews (as a lecturer in Greek, 2002–2008), Yale (as a Professor of Classics with a secondary appointment in African-American Studies, 2009-2021), and Princeton (as a Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values, 2021-2022). Her research interests include Greek prose literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, classical receptions from the nineteenth century to the present day, Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. Her most recent book was Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century and she is currently working on a book entitled Black Classicisms and the Expansion of the Western Classical Tradition. She has recently guest-edited a two-volume special issue of the American Journal of Philology, entitled “Diversifying Classical Philology”.
Heather K. Love
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Heather Love received her A.B. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include gender and sexuality studies, twentieth-century literature and culture, affect studies, sociology and literature, disability studies, film and visual culture, and critical theory. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard) and the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) and the co-editor of a special issue of Representations ("Description Across Disciplines"). She has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, and reading methods in literary studies. She is currently completing two books, one on the deviance studies roots of queer studies and one on practices of description in the humanities and social sciences after World War II.