Leanna Boychenko

Leanna Boychenko is writing her dissertation “Callimachus’ Book of Hymns: Poet, Narrator, Voice” under the direction of Egbert Bakker. Her dissertation studies the narrative techniques used in Callimachus’ Hymns to establish the voices and identities of narrators and characters, and how these are meaningfully interconnected across the hymnic corpus.

Besides Hellenistic poetry, her interests include Archaic Greek poetry, Greek mythology and religion, Augustan Latin poetry, and Egypt. Leanna is a graduate liaison for the Women’s Classical Caucus and the Yale Classics graduate-faculty liaison for 2011–12. Her recent papers include “Callimachus’ Other Telchines: Aetia fr.1, fr.75, and the Hymn to Delos,” CAAS Annual Meeting, Hunt Valley, MD, October 2011; “Sappho or Alcaeus: Authors and Genres of Archaic Hymns,” Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Yale University, July 2011; “A Broader Politics of Olympus: Two Shorter Homeric Hymns,” CANE Annual Meeting, Mt. Holyoke College, March 2011. She graduated from Harvard in 2006 with an A.B. in Classics.

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leanna.boychenko@yale.edu