Ahuvia Kahane - Curriculum Vitae#
I. Current:
- 2020 Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (Professorial)
- 2019 Regius Professor of Greek (1761), A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture (2017), Trinity College Dublin
- 1994 Senior Associate, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University
II. Education, Degrees:
- 1985 - 1990 D.Phil. Balliol College, University of Oxford
- 1979 - 1983 University of Tel Aviv, Department of Classics, B. A. (Greek/Latin)
III. Past Appointments (selected):
- 2004 - 2019 Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2012 - 2015 Head of Department, Department of Classics and Philosophy / Classics, RHUL
- 2007 - 2019 Co-Director, Centre for Reception of Greece and Rome, RHUL
- 2006 - 2008 Associate Director, University of London Institute in Paris
- 2005 - 2011 Director, Humanities and Arts Research Institute, RHUL
- 2004 - 2015 Director, University of London External System, Online Classics Program
- 2003 - 2004 Chairman, Department of Classics, Northwestern Univ
- 2000 - 2004 Associate Professor (tenured), Classics, Northwestern University
- 1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Classics, Northwestern University
- 1993 - 1994 JF, CHS, Harvard University
- 1990 - 1993 JRF, St Cross College, Oxford
- 1987 - 1989 Lecturer in Classics (p/t), Balliol College, Oxford
IV. Service and Membership (selected):
- 2024 Member, Trinity College Dublin College Board
- 2024 Member, Standing Committee of the Fellows, Trinity College Dublin
- 2021 TCD Equality Sub-Committee (prev. Committee, now Board Sub-Committee)
- 2022 TCD Common Room Committee
Refereeing:
Arethusa; CP; CQ, CW; Contemporary Political Theory; Digressus; JHS; Ordia Prima; TAPA, Philologus; CA, Mnemosyne, etc., Presses: Cornell, Cambridge, Chicago, Michigan, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, etc.
Books (partial):
1. Forthcoming (2025) Oral Theory, Complexity and Homeric Epic (De Gruyter).
2. Forthcoming (2025). A Cultural History of Time in Antiquity, eds. A. Kahane and S. Ashton (Bloomsbury).
3. In Press (2025): Epic, Novel, and the Progress of Antiquity (Bloomsbury).
4. 2024. Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments. eds. J. Joseph-Lester, A. Kahane, S. King and E. Leslie (Routledge).
5. 2012. Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum/Bloomsbury).
6. 2016. The Gods in Greek Hexameter Poetry and Beyond, eds. J. Clauss, M. Cuypers and A. Kahane (F. Steiner Verlag).
7. 2005/6. Diachronic Dialogues: Continuity and Authority in Homer and the Homeric Tradition (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield).
8. 2001. A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, eds. A. Kahane and A. J. W. Laird (Oxford).
9. 2000. The Chicago Homer, eds. A. Kahane and M. Mueller; https://homer.library.northwestern.edu/
10. 1997. Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance and the Epic Text, eds. E. J. Bakker and A. Kahane (Cambridge, MA).
11. 1996/1998. The Oxford English Hebrew Dictionary, eds., N. S. Doniach and A. Kahane (Oxford).
12. 1994. The Interpretation of Order: A Study in the Poetics of Homeric Repetition, in series “Oxford Classical Monographs” (Oxford).
Mentoring:
1. 2023-25 Dr. Leon Wash, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan. 2023.
2. 2022-23 Dr. Alexandra Madela, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Sept. 2022.
IX. PhD Supervision/Examination:
19 PhD dissertations supervised at TCD, RHUL, RCA (Royal College of Art) and NU. 2-4 MPhil Dissertations annually. About 2 PhD dissertations examined annually.
