Max Kaisler
Email:
max_kaisler@berkeley.edu
Languages:
English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Polish
Periods:
Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Medieval/Elizabethan/Renaissance Drama, 1800s up to the present
Research Areas
Biography
Max Kaisler comes to Berkeley with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English and Classics from Amherst College. She has won multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. She was awarded a Folger Fellowship to research Seneca’s influence on madness and medicine in revenge tragedy at the Folger Shakespeare Library and received the Greta Wrolstad Travel Award to explore ancient and modern sites of the oracular in Italy. Her work investigates atmospheric readings from the ancient to the modern world, with particular attention to the interrelations between 19th century literature, atmospheric readings, and barometry.