Erynn Kim is a PhD candidate in Classical Philology. She joined Yale in 2018 after receiving an AB in Classics and a certificate in Linguistics from Princeton University and an MPhil in Classics from Trinity College, Cambridge University. Her research interests include Ancient Greek and Babylonian epic poetry, poetics, and linguistics, as well as Asian American classical receptions. Her dissertation uses the theoretical frameworks of narratological and cognitive studies to compare dreams and similes in the Homeric epics and in the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Publications:
“Ismene, Interrupted: Conflict and Resolution through the Particle Μέν in Sophocles’ Antigone,” Mnemosyne (forthcoming).
“Felling the Canon: Classical Roots and Anti-Genealogies in Monica Youn’s Blackacre,” American Journal of Philology 143.4 (2022).
“P.CtYBR Inv. 1430: Letter from the Heroninos Archive,” Proceedings from the 29th International Congress of Papyrology - Lecce, 28th July - 3rd August 2019, vol. 2: 617-624 (2022).