Nelon Bryant Kirkland

earned his B.A . magna cum laude from Davidson College, where he wrote an honors thesis on the structure of Calpurnius Siculus’ seven eclogues considered as a book. This led to his work as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Trier, Germany, where he studied Theocritus and the wider bucolic tradition.

In 2009 Bryant completed an MA at University College London. His master’s thesis, supervised by Simon Hornblower, examined oracle scenes in Herodotus as narratological representations of how to read Herodotus’ text.

Bryant is in his second year at Yale. His current main interests include the literary aspects of Greek and Roman historiography generally; the intellectual milieu of Herodotus’ Histories, particularly that text’s interactions with lyric; and ancient biography. Aside from classics, he enjoys stage theatre and contemporary fiction. Bryant is an alumnus of the CUNY Latin-Greek Institute and has taught intermediate Greek at UCL’s Summer School in Classics.

BA with honors (2007) Davidson College

Fulbright Research Fellowship, Universität Trier, Germany

MA with distinction (2009) University College London

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nelon.kirkland@yale.edu