Leslie Kurke

Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.

She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was Pindar's Oikonomia: The House as Organizing Metaphor in the Odes of Pindar.

Kurke is married to another professor at Berkeley, Andrew Garrett.

Awards and honors

• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching
• 2010 Elected to the American Philosophical Society

Works

• The traffic in praise: Pindar and the poetics of social economy, Cornell University Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8014-2350-5
• Cultural poetics in archaic Greece: cult, performance, politics, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-512415-6
• Coins, bodies, games, and gold: the politics of meaning in archaic Greece, Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-691-00736-6
• The cultures within ancient Greek culture: contact, conflict, collaboration, Editors Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-81566-6
• Aesopic conversations: popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-69-114458-0