Victoria Wohl

Victoria Wohl works on the literature and culture of classical Greece. Her research spans a variety of genres and discourses and focuses in particular on the social relations, political thought, and psychic life of democratic Athens. She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (Texas, 1998), Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2002), Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory (Cambridge, 2010), and Euripides and the Politics of Form (Princeton, 2015), the last based on her 2011 Martin Classical Lectures. She also edited the collection  Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge, 2014). She is currently completing a book on the poetics of the Presocratic philosophers, the topic of her 2023 Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley.

Wohl received her BA from Harvard College and MA and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the UofT Classics Department in 2006, she taught at the Ohio State University and University of Texas at San Antonio, and also spent time at the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study. She was co-editor of Phoenix (2007-2009) and speaker for the CAC Western Tour (2011) and Central Tour (2014).