Sean Gurd: “Sound Philology”

Event time: 
Monday, February 12, 2018 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Presented by the Humanities Program Faculty Colloquium

Please join us for a conversation with Sean Gurd, Professor of Classical Studies/Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Sean Gurd works at the intersection of aesthetics, media studies, and classical philology, with a special interest in music and sound culture. He is the author of three monographs: Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology (Cornell University Press, 2006); Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Fordham University Press, 2016), and is the editor of Philology and its Histories (Ohio State University Press, 2010).

Sean Gurd: “Sound Philology” Poster