We are delighted to learn that Victoria Wohl is one of the 2025 winners of a Dean’s Research Excellence Award! These awards celebrate outstanding and influential scholarship across the Faculty of Arts & Science, and recognize scholars whose work has made a lasting impact in their fields. Congratulations Victoria!
Victoria Wohl is a distinguished professor in the Department of Classics, and one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient Greek literature. Her research spans a variety of genres and discourses and focuses in particular on the social relations, political thought, and psychic life of democratic Athens. Wohl has published work reflecting 900 years of Greek literature, encompassing genres such as tragedy, comedy, oratory, historiography and philosophy. She has consistently forged connections between antiquity and modernity, asserting that the field of classics has much to contribute to modern discussions. The author of numerous published works, she is currently completing a book on the poetics of the Presocratic philosophers.