About the Author

Matthew Gumpert is assistant professor of core curriculum at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He has taught comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Harvard University. His published work includes the English translation of Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sistera's Death by Mieke Bal.

Reviews

"Grafting Helen is impressive in its scholarly range, its intellectual verve, and its successful grafting of contemporary literary theory onto classical representations of Helen, beginning with Homer's." - Mary Lydon, University of Wisconsin-Madison"