Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King
January 27, 2023
In episode three of Faculty Spotlight, Lauren K. Wolfe and Mark DeLucas interview BISR classicist Bruce King. The three discuss: what brought Bruce to the classics; the charisma of his teachers (and the poverty of their ideas); queering the canon; the trouble with the Odyssey; coming to love Latin (and why he’s keeping Horace to himself); learning Sanskrit with friends; BISR’s new Language Learning and Critique program; and Bruce’s favorite non-ancient things—from Henry James to Claude Lévi-Strauss to La Monte Young’s “Pythagorean” Dream House.
Faculty Spotlight: Bruce King
Notations
Cultural Objects Mentioned
Bruce’s Late Light translation of several fragments of the Iliad.
Allan Bloom’s translation of Plato’s Republic.
Seán Hewitt’s All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
La Monte Young’s Dream House