"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