Texas Tech University

Dr. Denise E. McCoskey

Professor of Classics and Affiliate in Black World Studies, Miami University.

Dr. McCoskey has written extensively on the politics of race in antiquity, and in 2009 she won the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level. She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-author with Zara Martirosova Torlone of the forthcoming book Latin Love Poetry (I. B. Tauris, 2014). With Emily Zakin she co-edited Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Formation of the Polis (State University of New York Press, 2010). Dr. McCoskey received a B.A. in Classics and Archaeology from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University.

Dr. McCoskey's interview was held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, September 5, 2013.