Kathryn Morgan

Professor
Classical Greek Literature, Greek Intellectual History
Dodd 240A
310-794-1766
kmorgan@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Kathryn Morgan received her BA degree from Bryn Mawr College and her MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.  She taught four years at the Ohio State University before spending a year as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. She joined the UCLA faculty in 1996 and teaches a variety of courses in ancient Greek language and literature, including the large undergraduate course, Introduction to Classical Mythology.  She was honored with a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004 and with the American Philological Association Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.

Professor Morgan's interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. She teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy, Pindar, and Plato. She is the author of Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (Cambridge, 2000) and editor of and contributor to Popular Tyranny.  Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (Austin, 2003), a volume of essays on the conceptual role of tyranny in ancient Greece. Her recent research projects include work on Platonic fiction and narrative technique, and civic and educational ideology in Plato and Isocrates.  Her current book project is: Talking to Tyrants.  Pindar and the Construction of Sicilian Monarchy, where she examines Pindar’s victory odes for his Sicilian patrons and the programs of tyrannical self-representation to which they contribute.