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Kurke is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She also holds a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Kurke earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, and has been at Berkeley since 1990. She has studied, taught, and lectured in Cambridge, London, Athens, Tübingen, Oxford, Berlin, and many universities in this country.
Earlier this year, Kurke won a Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley. Her undergraduate teaching includes, besides a range of Classics, Greek, and Latin courses, classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese literatures, the history of Sexualities, and Ideologies of Sex and Gender.
Kurke has authored or edited four books including, The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration (edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 2003); Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (Princeton UP 1999); Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics (edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 1993); and The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (Cornell UP 1991). She has also written some 20 articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals.
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