Loyola University Chicago

Department of Classical Studies

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)