{"id":164,"date":"2015-08-31T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/dolores-m-ohiggins\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:10:48","slug":"laurie-ohiggins","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/laurie-ohiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurie O&#8217;Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie O\u2019Higgins, Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, trained at Trinity College Dublin and Cornell University (taking a year also to study at U.C. Berkeley).\u00a0 She has taught at The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve and Bates.\u00a0 Her teaching interests are broad: Greek and Latin language and literature, Food in Ancient Greece and Rome, Gender and the Body in Ancient Greece and Rome.\u00a0 Her research is also broad in scope, but has focused particularly on the question of \u201chearing\u201d the voices of non-elite men and women.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to numerous articles she published a book with Cambridge University press in 2003 entitled\u00a0Women and Humor in Classical Greece.\u00a0 Laurie also published The Irish Classical Self: Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Classical Presences series of Oxford University Press in 2017. She is currently at work on a book length project on the Odyssey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"featured_media":642,"template":"","class_list":["post-164","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-classical-reception","expertise-greek-literature","expertise-greek-religion","expertise-specific-18th-century-irish-history","expertise-specific-greek-religion","expertise-specific-homer","expertise-specific-women-in-classical-antiquity","what-i-teach-greek-and-roman-history-and-culture","what-i-teach-greek-language-and-literature","what-i-teach-latin-language-and-literature","what-i-teach-specific-food-in-ancient-greece-and-rome","what-i-teach-specific-gender-and-sexuality-in-the-ancient-world","what-i-teach-specific-greek-drama-and-poetry","what-i-teach-specific-greek-history","what-i-teach-specific-historiography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/164\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}