Eleanor Winsor Leach (August 16, 1937 – February 16, 2018) was the Ruth N. Halls Professor with the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University.
[4] She was very involved with academics and younger scholars – directing 26 dissertations, wrote letters for 200 tenure and promotion cases, and refereed more than 100 books and 200 articles.
[4] Leach's work had an interdisciplinary focus, reading Latin texts against their social, political, and cultural context.
[4] Leach published three books – Vergil's Eclogues: Landscapes of Experience (Ithaca, 1974); The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome (Princeton, 1988); The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples (Cambridge, 2004) – with another forthcoming – Epistolary Dialogues: Constructions of Self and Others in the Letters of Cicero and the Younger Pliny (University of Michigan Press).
Leach was on the Classical Jury of the American Academy in Rome (1980–82), a Resident Scholar there (Fall 1983), and later conducted 3 NEH summer seminars there (1986, 1989, 2008).