Publication Date
10-25-2024
Abstract
Amy Barbour (PhD Yale, 1902) was one of the first women to receive a PhD in Classics in the United States. This essay describes how Barbour’s social context, gender, and national identity inflected her engagement with transatlantic intellectual trends. A biographical sketch culminating with Barbour’s career at Smith College as Professor of Ancient Greek is followed by a description of her academic achievements in the light of contemporary disciplinary anxiety and the use of biography as a scholarly tool. This two-pronged approach complements the valuable body of scholarship on North American women Classicists, which has focused more on those women’s life-stories than their research. Some thoughts are offered on contemporary applications of biography in the study of classical scholarship, including this one.
First Page
6
Last Page
30
Recommended Citation
Boylan, Talia
(2024)
"Amy Barbour: Biography as Scholarly Self-Fashioning,"
New England Classical Journal: Vol. 51
:
Iss.
2
, 6-30.
Keywords
Amy Barbour, Yale, Smith College, Biography, Prosopography, Women Classicists, History of Classical Scholarship, Triphiodorus