Leslie Kurke

Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1981 (B.A. Greek Literature) and from Princeton University (M.A, Ph.D. Classics) in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was ''Pindar's Oikonomia: The House as Organizing Metaphor in the Odes of Pindar''.

Kurke is married to another professor at Berkeley, Andrew Garrett. Provided by Wikipedia