January 22, 2010

Greek Drama in 19th Century America
1900-1970


'Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915'

Niall W. Slater is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching. He received his B.A. from the College of Wooster in 1976, graduating as valedictorian of his class. He earned a master's degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981 at Princeton University. He has held fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Center for Hellenic Studies, the University of Konstanz, the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, Magdalen College of Oxford University, and the University of St. Andrews.

A past president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, he has served since 2003 as national president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His scholarly interests center on the ancient theatre, the ancient novel, archaeology of the theatre, and gender studies. His books include Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton, 1985; 2nd rev. edition Harwood, 2000), Reading Petronius (Johns Hopkins, 1990), and Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (Pennsylvania, 2002). He is currently writing a book on Euripides' Alcestis for a new Duckworth Press series on Greek and Roman tragedy.