Faculty
Leanna Boychenko
Title/s: Associate Professor
Post-Baccalaureate Program Director,
Faculty Affiliate,
LUC Institute for Racial Justice,
Illinois Vice President-CAMWS
Office #: Crown Center 565
Phone: 773.508.3659
Email: lboychenko@luc.edu
Degrees
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
Selected Publications
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
- Callimachus' Book of Hymns. (book project)