EMILY WILSON

Many of Professor Wilson’s in-person and virtual appearances have been recoded and are freely available online. Upcoming live talks are listed on the Appearances page.

Recorded talks:

• “The Iliad”, with Emily Wilson and Edith Hall with readings by Juliet Stevenson and Tobias Menzies, London Review of Books (October 2, 2023)

• “Among the Ancients: The Iliad”, London Review of Books (November 2023) Close Readings podcast with Thomas Jones

• The Iliad, Free Library of Philadelphia (September 26, 2023) with Sheila Murnaghan, chair of the classics department at the University of Pennsylvania

• Plagues from the Past 2020 Mark Strand Memorial Reading at Beinecke Library, Yale University, with Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics and African American Studies (October 22, 2020)

• Radical Translations: Maria Dahvana Headley, Emily Wilson, and Madeline Miller at The Center for Fiction (September 16, 2020)

• Translating the Odyssey Again: Why and How 2019 Sebald Lecture for the British Centre for Literary Translation at the British Library Knowledge Centre, London (May 2, 2019)

Recent podcast and radio appearances:

• The Iliad and the Right to Rule, BBC Radio 4's Start the Week (October 2, 2023). with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard, Ben Riley-Smith and host Adam RutherfordBBC Radio 4, In Our Time (March 18, 2021) “The Bacchae” with Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King’s College London, and Rosie Wyles, Lecturer in Classical History and Literature at the University of Kent

• LRB Conversations (November 2020) “Aeschylus’ Ghosts” with Thomas Jones

• Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast (October 22, 2019) ”Chris Ofili and Emily Wilson”

• Conversations with Tyler, Episode #63 (March 27, 2019) “Emily Wilson on Translations and Language”

• The Slate Culture Gabfest (November 15, 2017) "Tell Me About A Complicated Man Edition"