Rosa Andújar

Rosa Andújar, FHEA, is a Dominican-American Classicist. She is Deputy Director of Liberal Arts and a lecturer in Liberal Arts at King's College London. She is an expert in ancient Greek tragedy, especially the tragic chorus, and Hellenic classicisms in Latin America.

Education

Andújar received BAs from Wellesley and King's College, Cambridge. She completed her MA (2008) and her PhD (2011) at Princeton University. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Chorus in Dialogue: Reading Lyric Exchanges in Greek Tragedy.[1] It was supervised by Andrew L. Ford, Froma Zeitlin, and Bernd Seidensticker.

Career

Andújar was the first A. G. Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London (2012-2016).[2] She was appointed at King's College London in 2016. In 2019 she was Visiting Professor in Brazil at the Federal University of Paraná.

She is the co-editor of the Classics and the Postcolonial series for Routledge with Justine McConnell. She is Associate Editor for Greek Literature at the American Journal of Philology, and she is on the editorial board of two Brazilian Classics journals, Nuntius Antiquus and PhaoS - Revista de Estudos Clássicos.[3][4] In 2019 she was elected to the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

She edited The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro which brought together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays of Luis Alfaro, a Chicano playwright and performance artist.[5] These plays are based on Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus, and Euripides' Medea. Alfaro's Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada platform the concerns of the Chicanx and wider Latinx communities in Los Angeles and New York through ancient drama.

Publications
  • (ed.) The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada (London: Methuen Drama, 2020)
  • (Rosa Andújar, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, eds) Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
  • (ed.) Paths of song: the lyric dimension of Greek tragedy (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018)

References
  1. Andujar, Rosa Margarita (2011). The chorus in dialogue: Reading lyric exchanges in Greek tragedy. ISBN 978-1-267-00967-8.
  2. "Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Notice of Annual General Meeting Saturday 8th June 2019". Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Notice of Annual General Meeting.
  3. "Equipe Editorial". www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  4. "Equipe Editorial | PhaoS: Revista de Estudos Clássicos". econtents.bc.unicamp.br. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  5. Bloomsbury.com. "The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
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