Education:
Ph.D., University of Michigan - 2013 (Classical Studies)
A.B., Princeton University - 2005 (Classics)
Areas of Expertise:
Katherine Lu Hsu is currently preparing a monograph on Heracles and heroic violence; the study examines the dark side of Heracles as portrayed in visual images and literature from Homer through Apollonius Rhodius. Her interests also include literary papyrology and Latin poetry.
Books and Publications
"Heracles." Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015
"An Interpretation of a Ptolemaic Fragment of Euripides' Cresphontes." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 190: 31-48. P.Mich. 6973. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
"The Text of a Ptolemaic Fragment of Euripides' Cresphontes." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 190: 13-29. P.Mich. 6973. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Mellon Faculty Fellow, CUNY Faculty Diversity Initiative (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
$1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to establish the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarships, which will award tuition grants and living stipends to students with financial need in order to study at the Latin/Greek Institute in the summer. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
Research Activities
Co-organized with BC faculty David Schur and Brian Sowers a conference in Oct. 2016 on "The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus." Held at Brooklyn College under sponsorship of the Wolfe Instistute for the Humanities. 2016
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"'Heroism' is a Madness: Transgressing Boundaries in Steve Moore?s Hercules: The Thracian Wars." Celebrating Hercules in the Modern World, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Immortality and the Incurable Wound: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus"
Brooklyn College, NY (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Between Hesiod and the Sophists: Prodicus' Heracles at the Crossroads." Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Heracles the Hero(?) in Apollonius' Argonautica." Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem, N.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Locating Heracles at the Crossroads." CUNY Graduate Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Baylor University. Waco, Texas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Butler University. Indianapolis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Reed College. Portland, Ore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Trinity College. Hartford, Conn. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Murder, Madness, and Heroism in Euripides' Heracles." Tulane University. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Going the Distance: Defining Heroism in Disney's Hercules." Hercules: A Hero for All Ages. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Heracles and Erotic Failure in Apollonius' Argonautica." American Philological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"The Endurance of Aretē in Euripides' Heracles." Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting. Baton Rouge, La. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Professional Leadership
Society for Classical Studies, Committee on Diversity in the Profession (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Society for Classical Studies, Minority Scholarship Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Director, Latin/Greek Institute. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
