Marianne Hopman
Department of Classics

Marianne Hopman (PhD Harvard University and Université de Paris IV) studied at the École Normale Supérieure, the Sorbonne, and Harvard University before joining the Northwestern faculty in 2005 as an assistant professor in the Department of Classics. Her research focuses primarily on the semantics of Greek myths and their intersections with poetry, art, and religion. She has published articles on the figure of Niobe, the Orphic Hymns, and Juvenal’s Satires, and is currently revising her dissertation entitled The Maiden of the Straits: Scylla in the Poetics of Greece and Rome, for publication. Future research projects include articles on the sea and its metaphors in Athenian tragedy, and on the use of Greek myth in modern French literature.

m-hopman@northwestern.edu