Rosa Andújar

Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies

randujar@barnard.edu, rma2002@columbia.edu

Spring 2025 Office hours: TBD

Research Interests

• Ancient Greek Drama (Tragedy, Satyr Play, Comedy)

• Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

• Reception of Greek drama in postcolonial and global contexts

• Engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity across the Americas

Rosa Andújar’s research addresses ancient Greek drama and its modern global reception, particularly across the Americas. She is the author of Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2025) and the editor of The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro (Methuen Drama, 2020), which won the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. She has also co-edited Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury, 2020), Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (De Gruyter, 2018), and The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race (Cambridge, 2026). She is currently completing a second monograph entitled Tragedy and Revolución: Ancient Greek Drama as Political Theater in the Hispanic Caribbean, which is under contract with Yale University Press. Many of the plays which she examines in this new book project can be found in the forthcoming co-edited edition La Puerta Electra/The Electra Door: A Bilingual Anthology of Cuban Rewritings of Greek Tragedy (Routledge, 2026).

Professor Andújar’s numerous honors and awards include the 2022 AJP Best Article Prize, a 2023 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, a 2024 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, and the 2025 Pedro Henríquez Ureña Chair (Cátedra Pedro Henríquez Ureña) hosted by the Dominican National Library in Santo Domingo. Since 2024, she has been the editor of the American Journal of Philology.

Prof. Andújar joined the faculty of Barnard in 2026 after fourteen years of teaching in the United Kingdom, where she served on the faculty of both University College London (2012-2016) and King’s College London (2016-2025). She holds B.A. degrees from Wellesley College (2003) and the University of Cambridge (King’s College, 2005), as well as an M.A. (2008) and PhD. (2011) in Classics from Princeton University.

Selected Publications

Books

• The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race (ed. with Elena Giusti and Jackie Murray). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

• Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025

• The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada. London: Methuen Drama, 2020.

• Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (ed. with Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos). London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

• Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (ed. with Thomas Coward and Theodora Hadjimichael). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s <i>La Odilea,” American Journal of Philology 143.2 (Summer 2022), pp. 305-34

• “Phoenician Women: ‘Deviant’ Thebans Out of Time,” in Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy, edited by Sarah Olsen and Mario Telò (Bloomsbury, 2022), 176-85

• “Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s Hellenism and the American Utopia,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 37 (November 2018), 168-80

• “Uncles ex Machina: Familial Epiphany in Euripides’ Electra,” Ramus 45.2 (December 2016), 165-91

• “Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó,” in The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, edited by K. Bosher, F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, and P. Rankine (Oxford, 2015), 361-79