About
Daniel Walden, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Honors College. Prior to working at UTulsa he was a lecturer in classical studies at the University of Michigan, where he took his Ph.D. in 2021. His research interests include Greek epic poetry, ancient conceptions of personal identity, comparative Indo-European poetics, political philosophy, liturgical language, and the reception of classical antiquity among gay communities.
His current book project focuses on modes of characterization in the Homeric poems, investigating the role of the formulaic epithet system in fleshing out the characters of gods and heroes. He has also written on truth and kingly authority in Hesiod and on Roman testamentary law.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dissertation: To Sing the Deeds of Men: Epithet and Identity in Homeric Epic - A.B., Columbia University
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Archaic Greek poetry
- Comparative and historical linguistics
- Indo-European language family
- Comparative poetics
- Latin oratory and rhetoric
- Roman law
- Gay and lesbian studies
- Classical reception