"FREAKS! Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World" is very proud to announce its keynote speaker:

Page duBois

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
University of California, San Diego
pdubois@ucsd.edu

She will be presenting a paper entitled

"Super Freaks: Magic, the Abnormal and the Unnatural"

Selected Publications:

• History, Rhetorical Description and the Epic: From Homer to Spenser. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1982.
• Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Prehistory of the Great Chain of Being. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982. Paperback, 1991.
• "A Disturbance of Syntax at the Gates of Rome," Stanford Literature Review, 2 (1985): 185-208.
• Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Paperback, 1991.
• "Inscription, the Law, and the Comic Body," Metis: Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien, 3 (1988): 69-84.
• Il corpo come metafora: Rappresentazioni della donna nella Grecia antica. Rome: Laterza, 1990.
• Torture and Truth. New York and London: Routledge, 1991.
• Sappho Is Burning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Paperback, 1997.
• Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

University of California Tricampus Graduate Program in Classics