Rosa Andújar, FHEA, is a Dominican-American

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

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at King's College London. She is an expert in ancient Greek

tragedy Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy ...

, especially the tragic chorus, and Hellenic classicisms in

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Education

Andújar received BAs from Wellesley and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

. She completed her MA (2008) and her PhD (2011) at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Chorus in Dialogue: Reading Lyric Exchanges in Greek Tragedy.'' It was supervised by Andrew L. Ford,

Froma Zeitlin Froma I. Zeitlin is an American Classics scholar. She specializes in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the cont ...

, and Bernd Seidensticker.

Career

Andújar was the first A. G. Leventis Research Fellow in

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

Literature in the Department of Greek and Latin at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(2012-2016). She was appointed at King's College London in 2016 as Deputy Director of Liberal Arts and Lecturer in Liberal Arts. In 2019 she was Visiting Professor in Brazil at the

Federal University of Paraná The Federal University of Paraná ( pt, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR) is a public university headquartered in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. UFPR is considered to be one of the oldest universities in Brazil. UFPR ranks as 37th best univers ...

. She was the keynote speaker for the 42nd annual meeting of the

Australasian Society for Classical Studies The Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) is an international organisation which aims to promote the advancement of the study of ancient Greece and Rome, and their related fields. The organisation was established in 1966. The current sen ...

in 2021. She was awarded a prestigious

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

Mid-Career Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. She is the co-editor of the Classics and the Postcolonial book series for

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. She is Associate Editor for Greek Literature for the

American Journal of Philology The ''American Journal of Philology'' is a quarterly academic journal established in 1880 by the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It covers the field of philology, and related areas ...

. She is also on the editorial board of two Brazilian Classics journals, ''Nuntius Antiquus'' and ''PhaoS - Revista de Estudos Clássicos''. In 2019 she was elected to the Council of the

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the Ancient, Byzantine and Modern periods. The first Pr ...

for a three-year term. She was a founding member of the Women's Classical Committee (UK) and served on the group's first Steering Committee from 2015-2017. She edited ''The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada'', which brought together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays of

Luis Alfaro Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in ...

, a Chicano playwright and performance artist. These plays are based on

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or c ...

' ''Electra'' and ''Oedipus'', and

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

' ''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. The edition won the 2020 London Hellenic Prize (formerly known as the Criticos Prize). The prize awards £10,000. Previous winners include

Alice Oswald Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second Poe ...

for ''Nobody'' (2019),

Kamila Shamsie Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel '' Home Fire'' (2017). Named on ''Granta'' magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has be ...

for ''Home Fire'' (2017), and

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

for ''Antigonick'' (2012).

Publications

Books

* (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)

Articles and book chapters

* 'Philological Reception and the Repeating ''Odyssey'' in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s ''La Odilea, ''American Journal of Philology'' 143.2 (Summer 2022), pp. 305-334 * Phoenician Women'': "Deviant" Thebans Out of Time', ''Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy'', edited by Sarah Olsen and Mario Telò (Bloomsbury, 2022) pp. 176-185 * 'Choral Mirroring in Euripides' ''Phaethon, ''Greek Drama V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE'', edited by C. W. Marshall and H. Marshall (Bloomsbury, 2020) pp. 101-114 * 'Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s Hellenism and the American Utopia', ''Bulletin of Latin American Research'' 37.S1 (November 2018), pp. 168-180 * 'Uncles ''ex Machina'': Familial Epiphany in Euripides’ ''Electra, ''Ramus'' 45.2 (December 2016), pp. 165-191 * 'Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera’s ''Electra Garrigó, ''The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas'', edited by K. Bosher, F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, and P. Rankine (Oxford, 2015) pp. 361-379

References

External links

* King's College London Staff Profile Page: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rosa-andujar * Personal website: https://www.rosaandujar.com/
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