Katherine A. Geffcken

Biography: Katherine Geffcken, professor emerita of Latin and Greek at Wellesley College, is a past president of the Vergilian Society of America and a life member and former director of the American Philological Association. She received a BA from Agnes Scott College and received an MA and PhD from Bryn Mawr College. Geffcken is the author of Comedy in the Pro Caelio (Brill, 1973; reprinted by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1995) as well as articles on Garibaldi's defense of Rome (1849) and the buildings of the Janiculum in Newsletter of the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome