Leanna Boychenko

Associate Professor

Director of the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program Faculty Affiliate, LUC Institute for Racial Justice, Illinois Vice President-CAMWS

Education

A.B., Harvard College
M.A., M.Phil., PhD., Yale University

Research Interests

Hellenistic Poetry, Archaic Greek Poetry, Ptolemaic Egypt, and Identity and Ethnicity in the Ancient World

Publications/Research Listings

Recent Publications

• Strangers, Outsiders, and Foreign Worlds:  Identity and the Other in the Greek Imagination," in panel "Diverse Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom." CAMWS Annual Meeting; April 2024.
• Spawned from the Nile: Egyptian Monsters in Greco-Roman Culture." In Felton, D. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Monsters.  2024.
• The Hymn to Delos and Callimachus' Blame of Thebes."  Mnemosyne (published online ahead of print 2023).
• Callimachus' Other Telchines: Aetia fr.1, fr.75, and the Hymn to Delos."

Recent Papers

• Achilles and Romulus in Mexico: Mythopoiesis in Maria Cristina Mena's Short Fiction." SCS Annuel Meeting, January 2024.
• "More than Daughters:  The Danaids as Culture Heroes."  Illinois Classical Conference; October 2023.
• "Polydeuces and Amycus in Egypt."  Trinity College Dublin Argonautica Workshop; June 2023.

Works in Progress