Elizabeth Vandiver is a noted professor of classics. She is currently Associate Professor of classics at Whitman College, having previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] She received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 1998.[1] She won awards for her teaching from Northwestern University and the University of Georgia.[1]
She did undergraduate work at Shimer College in Illinois where she first attended at the age of 16. She got a B.A. degree in 1976 and then worked several years as a librarian. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Her dissertation was on Herodotus and was published as Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History. In February 2010, Oxford University Press published her groundbreaking study "Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War." She has taught at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, and Utah State University.[1]
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She has recorded several lectures for The Teaching Company in the field of classical history and literature and include the following: