Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
University of Washington
218 Denny Hall, Box 353110
Seattle, WA 98195-3110
ktopper@u.washington.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University, Classical Archaeology (2007)
A.B. Bryn Mawr College, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology/ English (2000)

Greek art and archaeology
ancient painting
gender and sexuality in antiquity
relationship between visual arts and literature

"Maidens, Fillies, and the Death of Medusa on a Seventh-Century Pithos," JHS forthcoming
"Symposium," in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin, Oxford University Press (in press)
"Primitive Life and the Construction of the Sympotic Past in Athenian Vase Painting," AJA 113.1 (2009) 3-26
"Perseus, the Maiden Medusa, and the Imagery of Abduction," Hesperia 76.1 (2007) 73-105


Curriculum Vitae

CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel on "Women, Food, and Drink in the Classical World" (APA 2011, San Antonio)

Classical Archaeology/ Art History
CLAR/ ARTH 442: Greek Painting
CLAR/ ARTH 341: Greek Art and Archaeology
CLAR/ ARTH 343: Hellenistic Art and Archaeology

Greek and Latin
GREEK 422: Herodotus and the Persian Wars
GREEK 305: Attic Prose--Xenophon's Anabasis
LATIN 307: Vergil

Classical Studies
CLAS 430: Greek and Roman Mythology
 

UW Department of Classics
Archaeological Institute of America--Seattle Society