Eleanor Winsor Leach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eleanor Winsor Leach

American classical philologist

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1937

Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Date of Death: 16-Feb-2018

Profession: university teacher, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Eleanor Winsor Leach (August 16, 1937 – February 16, 2018) was the Ruth N.
Halls Professor with the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University.
She was a trustee of the Vergilian Society in 1978-83 and was second and then first vice-president in 1989-92.
Leach was the president of the Society of Classical Studies (formerly, the American Philological Association) in 2005/6, and the chair of her department (1978-1985).
She was very involved with academics and younger scholars - directing 26 dissertations, wrote letters for 200 tenure and promotion cases, and refereed more than 100 books and 200 articles.
Leach's research interests included Roman painting, Roman sculpture, and Cicero and Pliny's Letters.
She published three books (with another forthcoming) and more than 50 articles.
Leach's work had an interdisciplinary focus, reading Latin texts against their social, political, and cultural context.
From the 1980s onwards, she combined her work on ancient literature with the study of Roman painting, monuments, and topography.