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Victoria Wohl works on literature and culture in classical Greece. Her research spans a variety of genres and discourses, focusing particularly on social relations, political thought, and the psychic life of democratic Athens. Wohl is the author of several books, including 'Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy' (Texas, 1998), 'Love Ruins: Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens' (Princeton, 2002), 'Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory' (Cambridge, 2010), and 'Euripides’ Politics of Form' (Princeton, 2015). She is currently completing a book on the poetics of Presocratic philosophers, which will be the topic of the 2023 Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Wohl received her BA from Harvard College and both MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the University of Toronto's Classics Department in 2006 after teaching at Ohio State University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, as well as spending time at the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study. Wohl also served as co-editor of 'Phoenix' from 2007 to 2009 and was a speaker for the CAC Western Tour in 2011 and Central Tour in 2014.
Department of Sociology