Skip to main content
Apply Give
Menu

Celebrating Prof. Lillian Doherty's New Book on the Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Celebrating Prof. Lillian Doherty's New Book on the Odyssey

Classics Thursday, September 24, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Tydings Hall, 0111

Please join the Departments of Classics for a conversation with Profs. Lillian Doherty and Jennifer Ballengee, to celebrate the publication of Prof. Doherty's edited volume Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey (MLA, 2026).  The event will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 4 pm, in Tydings Hall 0111, in the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Prof. Doherty's volume seeks to help instructors introduce students to topics such as oral epic traditions and the relationship of the Odyssey to the Iliad. It grapples directly with issues that concern instructors and students today, from the epic’s value system and cultural norms to its portrayals of violence, slavery, and misogyny. The volume also includes responses to the Odyssey by writers from Dante to contemporary American poets. Her book features essays from a variety of perspectives – including feminism, postcolonialism, and popular culture such as television, games, and comics – and addresses a wide range of teaching contexts, from world literature courses to high schools and a prison.

Prof. Doherty will be joined by one of her contributors to the volume, Prof. Ballengee of Towson University, to discuss the challenges of teaching the ancient epic as well as its surprising relevance for an age of mass migration, homelessness, cultural exchange, and conflict.

Add to Calendar 09/24/26 16:00:00 09/24/26 17:30:00 America/New_York Celebrating Prof. Lillian Doherty's New Book on the Odyssey

Please join the Departments of Classics for a conversation with Profs. Lillian Doherty and Jennifer Ballengee, to celebrate the publication of Prof. Doherty's edited volume Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey (MLA, 2026).  The event will take place on Thursday, September 24 at 4 pm, in Tydings Hall 0111, in the University of Maryland, College Park. 

Prof. Doherty's volume seeks to help instructors introduce students to topics such as oral epic traditions and the relationship of the Odyssey to the Iliad. It grapples directly with issues that concern instructors and students today, from the epic’s value system and cultural norms to its portrayals of violence, slavery, and misogyny. The volume also includes responses to the Odyssey by writers from Dante to contemporary American poets. Her book features essays from a variety of perspectives – including feminism, postcolonialism, and popular culture such as television, games, and comics – and addresses a wide range of teaching contexts, from world literature courses to high schools and a prison.

Prof. Doherty will be joined by one of her contributors to the volume, Prof. Ballengee of Towson University, to discuss the challenges of teaching the ancient epic as well as its surprising relevance for an age of mass migration, homelessness, cultural exchange, and conflict.

 Tydings Hall false