Specialties: Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry, Creative Writing, Translation, and Environmental Humanities

James Bradley Wells is a poet, translator (ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, and French), and scholar. Wells has published one poetry collection, Bicycle (Sheep Meadow Press, 2013), and one poetry chapbook, The Kazantzakis Guide to Greece (Finishing Line Press, 2015). He has also published two poetry translations, Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). Wells’s poetry, fiction, and translations of poetry have appeared in Journal of Italian Translation, New England Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, and World Poetry Review, among other journals. His research publications include Pindar’s Verbal Art (Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009), a study of speech and performance in Pindar’s victory songs. Wells is the Edwin L. Minar Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University.

Publications:

2024. HoneyVoiced: A Translation of Pindar’s Songs for Athletes. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2022. Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
2015. The Kazantzakis Guide to Greece. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press.
2013. Bicycle. Rhinebeck, NY: Sheep Meadow Press.
2009. Pindar’s Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies.

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