Helene P. Foley

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Helene Peet Foley (born November 29, 1942 ) is an American Graecist .

Foley received her BA in 1964 from Swarthmore College and continued her studies in 1966 with a MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) in English and 1967 with an MA in Classics from Yale University . She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1975 with a dissertation on Ritual Irony in the Bacchae and Other Late Euripidean Plays.

She taught from 1973 to 1979 as an assistant and assistant professor at Stanford University before moving to Barnard College . There she was Assistant Professor from 1979 to 1984, Associate Professor from 1984 to 1989, Professor from 1990, and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics from 1990 to 1997. She has also been a member of the Graduate Faculty of Columbia University since 1984 .

She was also President of the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies ) in 1988 . In 2007/2008 she was the 94th Sather Professor . Her lectures there were about the re-performances of Greek tragedies in America, in which current topics such as slavery , race , the position of women, immigration and identity were discussed. In 2008 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She was also visiting professor at Dartmouth College in 1987 , at New York University in 1988 , and in 1989 at the University of California at Berkeley .

Her research focuses on the Homeric epic , Greek tragedy and comedy , women and gender in antiquity and the reception of Greek tragedy.

Fonts (selection)

  • Euripides, Hecuba. (Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy). Bloomsbury, London 2014.
  • Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage . University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2012.
  • (Ed. With Erin B. Mee): Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
  • (Ed. With Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill and Jas Elsner ): Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature. Essays in Honor of Froma Zeitlin. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.
  • Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001.
  • The Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1994.
  • (Ed. With Elaine Fantham , Natalie B. Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy and Alan Shapiro): Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1994.
  • Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London 1985.
  • Reflections of Women in Antiquity. Routledge, London 1981.

Web links

  • Personal page in the Department of Classics at Columbia University (with CV and list of publications)
  • Personal page at Barnard College
  • Personal page in the Classical Studies Graduate Program at Columbia University

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Summaries of Dissertations for the Degree of Ph.D. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 83, 1979, 399-402.
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Foley, Helene P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foley, Helene; Foley, Helene Peet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Gracist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1942