Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics (Emerita) at the University of Virginia. After completing studies at Reed College and the University of Chicago, Strauss Clay completed her PhD at the University of Washington and, before the University of Virginia, she taught at the University of California at Irvine and Johns Hopkins University. Major publications include The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (1989), The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (1997), Hesiod's Cosmos (2003), and Homer's Trojan Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the Iliad (2011). She will speak about Homer's portrayal of the god Hermes.