Laurialan
Associate Professor
Classics

Laurialan Reitzammer (Ph.D. Berkeley) studies Greek literature, Greek mythology and religion, and gender and sexuality. Her first book, The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice (Wisconsin 2016) examines literary and visual representations of an ancient Greek women's festival to argue that the performance of the ritual offered a critique of mainstream cultural practices. She has recently published essays on Euripides' µþ²¹³¦³¦³ó²¹±ðÌý(Blackwell Companion to Euripides (2017, ed. L. McClure) and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. Lauri is currently at work on her second book project on ³Ù³ó±ðô°ù¾±²¹Ìý(sacred sightseeing) and gender in Classical Athenian drama. She has been awarded fellowships from the Loeb Foundation, a CHA Faculty Fellowship, and a College Scholar Award, and she was the recipient of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award and the CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching 2018-19. She has designed an online ancient Greek class, and she teaches courses on Greek poetry and prose, Greek mythology and religion, and gender and sexuality.