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Helene Foley
Professor
Barnard College
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Biography
Professor Foley graduated from Swarthmore College (1964), received an
MAT in English (1966) and an MA in Classics (1967) from Yale
University and a PHD in Classical Philology from Harvard University
(1975). She moved from Stanford University to Barnard in 1979. She has
also taught as a visiting professor at Dartmouth, New York University,
and Berkeley. She has served as president of the American Philological
Association in 1998 and will be Sather Professor of Classics at
Berkeley in Spring 2008.
Research Interests
Her research interests focus on Greek literature, especially epic,
tragedy, and comedy; women and gender in Antiquity; and the reception
of classical drama. She is the author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and
Sacrifice in Euripides, Cornell University Press, 1985; The
Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Princeton University Press, 1994;
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, co-authored with
Elaine Fantham, Natalie Kampen, Sarah Pomeroy, and Alan Shapiro,
Oxford University Press, 1994; Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
(=Martin Classical Lectures 1995), Princeton University Press, 2001.
She is editor of Reflections of Women in Antiquity, Gordon and
Breach, 1981 and a co-editor of a forthcoming volume (2007),
Visualizing the Tragic, Oxford University Press.
She is currently working on her Sather classical lectures on the
reception of Greek tragedy on the U.S. stage. | |
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