Emily Wilson

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British classicist and Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson "comes from a long line of academics", including both her parents, A. N. Wilson and Katherine Duncan-Jones, her uncle, and her maternal grandparents, including Elsie Duncan-Jones. Her sister is the food writer Bee Wilson. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford in 1992 (BA in Literae Humaniores, Classical Literature and Philosophy), she undertook her Masters in English Renaissance Literature (1994) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and her Doctorate (2001) in Classical and Comparative Literature at Yale University. In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship (Rome Prize). In 2017, she was the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English. Wilson is a book reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and The New Republic. She is the classics editor for the Norton Antholog[ies] of World Literature and Western Literature. 2Bibliography Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8018-7964-