Emily Wilson  is Professor of classical studies and Graduate Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College, B.A., and Corpus Christi College, M.Phil.) and Yale University (Ph.D.).

In 2006, she was named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern scholarship, and in 2019 was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In addition to The Odyssey , she has published translations of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca. Among her other books are Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton ; The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain , Chatterbox, Saint; The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca ; and Faithful , a book about translation. Wilson is an editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature and an advisory editor of the Norton Library.