About

Johanna Hanink is John Rowe Workman Professor of Classics at Brown University. She writes and teaches on various aspects of Greek antiquity and its legacy. Her work in Classics focuses on the literature and culture of classical Athens, while her work in Modern Greek Studies is centered on how ideas about the ancient past shape the modern world.

She hosts a podcast called Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas, and is also a translator of Ancient and Modern Greek.

She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge.

Click here for her CV.