Boris (Rodin) Maslov

Academic interests

Boris Maslov’s principal research interests are in Ancient Greek literature, literary theory, historical semantics, and comparative metrics. His current projects include a book on myth and plot (mostly) in Attic tragedy, articles on aesthetic republicanism, and a comparative statistical analysis of prosodic features of Ancient Greek verse and prose.

Courses taught at the UiO

• Cicero                 

• Greek epic                                                                              

• Paleography and textual criticism (MA-level course)            

• Latin lyric poetry                                                                    

• Archaic Greek Lyric (MA-level class)                                     

• Ancient Literature in Translation (lecture course)

• Greek Historians                                                                      

• Hellenistic Poetry (MA-level class)                                         

• Greek Drama                                                                             

• Philology as a Way of Life (with R. Rubini)                             

• Advanced Greek Prose Composition                                         

Background

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
• B.A. Classical Languages, University of California, Berkeley (2003)
• B.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley (2003) 
• Boris Maslov is one of the founding members of the Historical Poetics Working Group. More information available on the HPWG website: https://sites.google.com/view/historicalpoetics.
• Since 2016, Professor Maslov has been a Senior Research Fellow in a project on “Reconstructive Poetics” at the Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg.