#  Publications 

 



**Monographs:**

[*Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama*](https://www.ucpress.edu/books/seeing-theater/hardcover?_rsc=12xla). Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.

[*The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater*](https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-music-of-tragedy/paper). Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.

**Edited volumes:**

[*Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/music-and-memory-in-the-ancient-greek-and-roman-worlds/1C8848460176777B721D4A7F0ADC47CC). Edited with Lauren Curtis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

[*Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models*](https://brill.com/display/title/55930?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOop3kVdRpKbusAi-pUOGAo-PDujd-ISuSHnesmfSkCP8GqH8zprb). Edited with Margaret Foster and Leslie Kurke. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

**Articles and book chapters:**

"Aristotle's Tereus: Birds, Humans, and Theater in the *History of Animals*." Forthcoming in *Classical Antiquity*.

"Orestes' Bow and the Possibilities of Performance." Forthcoming in *TAPA*.

“Bodies Between Pots and Plays.” In *Corporeal Classical Reception*, edited by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Barbara Graziosi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming.

"Gestures of Violence: Gender, Genre, and Space in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans 10." In *Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Directions*, edited by Margaret Foster and Naomi Weiss. Forthcoming.

“Double Wives in Euripides’ *Ino*.” In *The New Euripides Papyrus*, edited by John Gibert, Laurialan Reitzammer, and Yvona Trnka-Amhrein. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. Forthcoming.

“Acrobats and Audiences in West Greek Vase Painting.” In *Unsettled Dynamics: The Engagement of Audiences in Ancient Greek Theatre*, edited by Anne-Sophie Noel, Al Duncan, and Pascale Brillet. De Gruyter. Forthcoming.

“Music and Pathos in Aeschylean Tragedy.” In *The Beauties of Song: Aesthetic Appreciations of Music in the Greek and Roman World*, edited by Theodora Hadjimichael and Pierre Destrée. Forthcoming.

“Teaching Tragic Form with Luis Alfaro.” In *The Art and Artistry of Luis Alfaro: Reimagining Classics in the Classroom and Community*, edited by Young R. Kim, 75–88. London: Routledge, 2026.

“Bodies That Shock: The Erinyes and Lyssa.” In *Sensing Greek Drama*, edited by Zachary Case, Marcus Ellis, and Antonia Reinke, 145-62. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2024.

“Audience.” In [*Imprints of Ancient Dance: Texts, Bodies, Images, Movement*](https://libros.uam.es/uam/catalog/book/1303), edited by Zoa Alonso Fernández and Sarah Olsen, 157-82. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ediciones, 2024.

“Music, Dance, and Meter in Aeschylean Tragedy.” In *A Companion to Aeschylus*, edited by Jacques Bromberg and Peter Burian, 242-53. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2023.

[“Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire.”](https://academic.oup.com/crj/article-abstract/14/2/240/6368298) *Classical Receptions Journal* 14 (2022) 240-63.

“Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece.” In *The Oxford Handbook of Timbre*, edited by Emily Dolan and Alexander Rehding, 229-48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Performance, Memory, and Affect: Animal Choruses in Attic Vase Painting.” In *Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds*, edited by Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss, 203-33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

With Lauren Curtis, “Introduction.” In *Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds*, edited by Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss, 3-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

[“Opening Spaces: Prologic Phenomenologies in Greek Tragedy and Comedy.”](https://online.ucpress.edu/ca/article-abstract/39/2/330/114628/Opening-SpacesPrologic-Phenomenologies-of-Greek?redirectedFrom=fulltext) *Classical Antiquity* 39 (2020): 330-67.

“Ancient Greek *Choreia*.” In *A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music*, edited by Eleonora Rocconi and Tosca Lynch, 161-72. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

[“Generic Hybridity in Greek Tragedy.”](https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004412590/BP000010.xml?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOorJ7eEnytLZdiDeUXCS_2SGbW3P6p17FvL4pybSK8_6QLS8_U12) In *Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models*, edited by Leslie Kurke, Margaret Foster, and Naomi Weiss, 167-90. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

With Margaret Foster and Leslie Kurke, [“Introduction.”](https://brill.com/display/book/9789004412590/BP000001.xml) In Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, edited by Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke, and Naomi Weiss, 1-28. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

“Forms and Media.” In *A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity*, edited by Emily Wilson, 17-34. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

“Speaking Sights and Seen Sounds in Aeschylean Tragedy.” In *The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides*, edited by Melissa Mueller and Mario Telò, 169-84. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.

“Hearing the Syrinx in Euripidean Tragedy.” In *Music, Texts, and Culture in Ancient Greece*, edited by Armand D’Angour and Thomas Phillips, 139-62. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Performing the *Hymenaios* in Euripides’ *Iphigenia in Aulis*.” In *Paths of Song: Interactions between Greek Lyric and Tragedy*, edited by Rosa Andújar, Thomas Coward, and Theodora Hadjimichael, 315-41. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.  
  
[“Noise, Music, Speech: The Representation of Lament in Greek Tragedy.”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/26360827) *American Journal of Philology* 138 (2017): 243-66.

[“The Choral Architecture of Pindar’s Eighth Paean.”](https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35350) *Transactions of the American Philological Association* 146 (2016): 237-55.

[“The Antiphonal Ending of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis.”](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/675252) *Classical Philology* 109 (2014): 119-29.

[“The Visual Language of Nero’s Harbor Sestertii.”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24616457) Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome 58 (2013): 65-81.

“Recognition and Identity in Euripides’ *Ion*.” *Recognition and Modes of Knowledge: Anagnorisis from Antiquity to Contemporary Theory*, edited by Teresa Russo, 33-49. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2013.

“A Psychoanalytical Reading of Euripides’ *Ion*: Repetition, Development and Identity.” *Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies* 51 (2008): 39-50.

**Reviews:**

Sarah Nooter, *The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus*. *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* 2018.10.29.

Judith Mossman (ed. and trans.), *Euripides: Medea*. *Classical Review* 66 (2016): 39-41.

Johanna Hanink, *Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy*. *Classical Philology* 111 (2016): 89-94.

Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman (eds.), *Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy*. *Classical Review* 65 (2015): 25-27.

**In progress:**

*Euripides: Orestes*. Commentary co-written with Sarah Olsen. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.

*Tragic Repetition*. Short monograph for *Cambridge Elements in Ancient Greek and Roman Drama and Performance*. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.

*Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Directions*. Volume co-edited with Margaret Foster.

“Epilogue: Reimagining Performance.” Chapter for *From Text to Performance: Reimagining Greek Drama*, edited by M. Halleran, M. Brown, and J. Paga.



 

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