Background

Leach, Eleanor Winsor was born on August 16, 1937 in Providence. Daughter of Lloyd Moulton and Ruth (Evans) Winsor.

Education

AB, Bryn Mawr College, 1959;Master of Arts, Yale University, 1960;Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1963.

Career

From instructor to assistant professor, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1962-1966;from assistant to associate professor, Villanova (Pennsylvania) U., 1966-1971;visiting associate professor, University Texas, Austin, 1972-1973;visiting associate professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1974-1976;from associate professor to professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1976;chairman classical studies, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1978-1985;director graduate studies, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1997. Visiting professor Barnard College, Columbia University, 1981-1982, U. Maryland., 1990. Resident scholar in classical studies American Academy in Rome, 1983-1984.

Director National Endowment for Humanities summer seminar for college teachers, 1986, 89. Blegen distinguished visiting professor Vassar College, 1987-1988. Visiting fellow Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 1996.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican Augustan Rome

    ( The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love ...)

• Other Work

  • Author: Virgil's Eclogues: Landscapes of Experience, 1974, The Rhetoric of Space: Artistic and Literary Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome, 1988. Contributor more than 40 articles on Roman literature and art to various publications.

Membership

Member American Philog. Association (board directors 1981-1984, vice president for program 1991-1994), Virgilian Society of America (vice president, president 1991-1993), Classical Association Midwest and South (executive committee 1984-1988), Archeological Institute American (president Center Indiana Society 1986-1988), Society for Promotion of Roman Studies, Federation International des Associations Etudes Classiques (representative to delegate assembly since 1997).

Connections

Married Peter John Leach, November 15, 1962 (divorced 1979). 1 child, Harriet Olney.

father:

Lloyd Moulton Winsor

mother:

Ruth (Evans) Winsor

spouse:

Peter John Leach

child:

Harriet Olney Leach