Gregory Nagy

Gregory Nagy (Hungarian: Nagy Gergely, pronounced [ˈnɒɟ ˈgɛrgɛj]; born Budapest, October 22, 1942)[1][2] is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey.[3]

Education and career

Nagy received his A.B. from Indiana University in 1962 in classics and linguistics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966 in classical philology.

Since 1966, he has been a professor at Harvard University.

Since 2000, he has been the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, a Harvard-affiliated research institution in Washington, DC. He is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, and continues to teach half-time at the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Chair of the Classics Department at Harvard University. He was Chair of Harvard's undergraduate Literature Concentration from 1989 to 1994. He served as the president of the American Philological Association in the academic year 1990-91.

MOOC offering

In 2013 Harvard offered his popular class, The Ancient Greek Hero, which thousands of Harvard students had taken over the last few decades, through edX as a massive open online course. To assist Professor Nagy, Harvard appealed to alumni to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers. About 10 former teaching fellows have also volunteered. The task of the volunteers is to focus online class discussion on the course material. The course had 27,000 students registered.[4]

Personal life

Nagy and his wife, Olga Davidson, lecturer in Brandeis University's Humanities Program and chair of the Ilex Foundation, served as co-masters of Currier House at Harvard from 1986 to 1990.

Nagy has two brothers in allied fields: Blaise Nagy is a professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, while Joseph F. Nagy is a professor of Celtic folklore and mythology at UCLA.

Works

Books

As sole author

As editor or co-editor

Articles

References

  1. "CV: Gregory Nagy", gregorynagy.org
  2. "Profile: Professor Gregory Nagy" at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2005), University of Vermont, President's Distinguished Lecture Series (archived 2005)
  3. Greg Nagy and the oral tradition of Homeric poetry, an interview, a video and a performance (Digital Pioneers@Harvard, September 2014)
  4. Pérez-Peña, Richard (March 25, 2013). "Harvard Asks Graduates to Donate Time to Free Online Humanities Class". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2013.
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