Katherine Kretler, PhD

Katherine Kretler received her Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is a Homerist with a particular interest in epic performance and in the complex way Homer is taken up by ancient philosophers. Before coming to Concordia in 2011, she taught Greek and Latin language and literature as well as humanities and philosophy courses at the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College. Professor Kretler has worked as a dialect coach in Homeric Greek, and once taught an eight-and-a-half-year course on the Iliad.

Educaton

PhD (University of Chicago) BA (Harvard University)