Jenni Glaser
Biography
Jenni Glaser's research involves ancient drama and philosophy of language. Her current book project is on Lucian and Old Comedy, including the fragmentary poets, arguing that Lucian activitates literary and external biographical traditions to style himself as a comic author. She has published on Aeschylus, Lucian, and the intersection of comedy and philosophy of language in Plato's Symposium.
Area of Expertise
Old Comedy, Greek and Roman theater, Lucian of Samosata, literary traditions, early modern book studies, philosophy of language, Lucretius, Plato, Seneca, metaphor, ancient grammarians
Degrees
PhD, Bryn Mawr College (2025)
Professional Publications & Contributions
Articles and book chapters
"Plus Arte Quam Marte: Lucianic Ecphrasis, Illustration, and Paratextual Reinterpretation in Jean Baudoin’s 1613 Edition." Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, Peeters (forthcoming).
"Grammatical and Philosophical Gender in Plato’s "Symposium." American Journal of Philology 147, no. 3 (2026): 651-686.
“Hearing with the Mind’s Eye: Nested Narratives in Seven Against Thebes." Classical Philology 121 (1): 1–15 (2026).
‘Fiction in Aristophanes and Lucian.’ Omnibus 90, September 2025.
Reviews and Reference Entries
"Comedy (in Cratinus’ Pytine)" and "Katabasis" in Trends in Classics – Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH) (forthcoming).
Review of Goldhill, S. (2024) The Cambridge companion to Lucian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Sept. 03, 2026.
Co-author. Entry for Rotundare in Fasc. XI resurgo – reus. Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. (2025) De Gruyter.
Review of Novokhatko, A. (2023) Greek comedy and embodied scholarly discourse. Berlin: De Gruyter. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Nov. 28, 2023.
Additional Information
Courses Taught
- CLSICS 286 Greek and Roman Comedy
- Latin 415/615 Methods of Teaching Latin Language