Sheila Murnaghan
Classical Studies
Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek and Faculty Director of the Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies. Her research areas include Greek literature, especially epic, tradegy, and historiography, gender in classical culture, and classical reception. Recent publications include, "Tragic Bystanders: Choruses and Other Survivors in the Plays of Sophocles," in J. R. C. Cousland and James R. Hume, edd. The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 321–333 and "The Memorable Past: Antiquity and Girlhood in the Works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison," Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000, ed. Christopher Stray (London 2007) 125-139.