Sheila Murnaghan
Sheila Murnaghan | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Classical tradition, Ancient Greek literature |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Notable students | Monica Cyrino |
Notable works | Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey |
Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is particularly known for her work on Greek epic, tragedy, and historiography.[1]
Career
Murnaghan gained her AB in Classics from Harvard University in 1973 followed by a BA from Cambridge University in 1975 and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.[2] Murnaghan taught at Yale University from 1979 until 1990 then moved to the University of Pennsylvania where she is now the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek.[3]
Murnaghan works on Greek
Murnaghan currently works on the classical tradition, particularly the development of Greek mythology as children's literature in the 19th-20th centuries. She was invited to give a lecture on the subject as part of the Heinz Blum Memorial Lecture Series at Boston College in 2016[6] and her volume on the subject with Deborah H. Roberts was published in 2018.[3]
Select publications
- with Deborah H. Roberts Childhood and the Classics: Britain and America, 1850-1965 (Oxford University Press 2018)
- with Ralph M. Rosen Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Ohio State University Press 2018)
- with Hunter Gardner Odyssean Identities In Modern Cultures: The Journey Home (Ohio State University Press 2014)
- with Sandra R. Joshel Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 1998)
- Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton 1987, 2nd edition 2011)
- "How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man: The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophone's Oeconomicus." Helios 15: 1 (1988), 9-22.[7]
- "Maternity and mortality in Homeric poetry." Classical Antiquity, 11(1992): 2, 242-264.[8]
- "Reading Penelope" in Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre (Texas Tech UP, 1994).[9]
- "The Plan of Athena" in The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey (Oxford 1995).[10]
- "Sucking the Juice Without Biting the Rind: Aristotle and Tragic Mimesis." Arethusa 26: 4 (1995): 755-773.[11]
- "The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic" in Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (UC Press, 1999)[12]
- "Tragic Bystanders: Choruses And Other Survivors In The Plays Of Sophocles." in the Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honor of Martin Cropp (Brill 2009).[13]
- "Penelope's Song: The Lyric Odysseys of Linda Pastan and Louise Glück," Classical and Modern Literature 22 (2002): 1-33 (with Deborah H. Roberts)[1]
- "Penelope's Agnoia: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in the Odyssey" in Homer's Odyssey, ed. Lillian Doherty (Oxford UP, 2009).[14]
References
- ^ a b "Sheila Murnaghan | Department of Classical Studies". www.classics.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ ISBN 9780199583478.
- S2CID 161572158.
- JSTOR 295181.
- ^ "How Nathaniel Hawthorne Brought Mythology to Children — The Heights". bcheights.com. 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
- ^ Murnaghan, Sheila (1988-01-01). "How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man: The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophone's Oeconomicus". Helios. 15 (1): 9–22.
- PMID 18080407.
- ISBN 9780896723313.
- ISBN 9780195344738.
- S2CID 170468444.
- ISBN 9780520210387.
- ISBN 9789047428190.
- ISBN 9780199233328.