KATERINA ZACHARIA

Office: Loyola Marymount University Department of Classics and Archaeology University Hall 3755 Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 Tel: (310) 338.5783 Fax: (310) 338.1947 E-mail: kzacharia@lmu.edu

 

Chair of Classics & Archaeology 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
June 2003–present: Associate Professor in Classics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

June 2002–May 2003: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

January 1999–May 2002: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics and Modern Greek Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

September 1997–June 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, University College London, University of London.

September 1997–September 1998: Lecturer on Classical Drama for the M.A. in Text & Performance Studies at King’s College, University of London.

September 1996–August 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, Royal Holloway & New Bedford College, University of London.


EDUCATION
University College London
     1998–2000: A.G. Leventis Foundation, Special Post-doctoral Research
         Fellowship.
         Thesis: "Dionysian and Apolline Poetics at the Festivals of Dionysus"

     1997: Ph.D. in Classics
         Dissertation: "A Thematic Commentary on Euripides’ Ion with special  
         attention to literary and religious aspects"
         Director: Professor Patricia E. Easterling (then, Regius Professor of Greek,  
         Cambridge, Newnham College)

     1991–1992: Graduate Researcher
         Thesis: "Reception of Euripides from ancient scholiasts to scholars of the
         twentieth century"
         Director: Professor Patricia E. Easterling

     1990: M.A. in Classics

Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and King’s College, University of London
     1998: M.A. in Text & Performance Studies (audit/instructor)

Kapodistrian University, Athens
     Graduate Researcher, "Erotic vocabulary in the extant Sophoclean tragedies"
     B.A., majors in Philosophy and Psychology, minor in Pedagogy 


PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity
Editor and contributor. Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum (2008)
Reviewed in:
(a) January 2-3, 2009, in Nea Vivliodromio, by Dimitris Papanikolaou, Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford (in Greek) 
(b) March 3, 2009, in Sehepunkte, 9 (2009) Nr 3., by Constanze Güthenke, Department of Classics, Princeton University (in German)
(c) April 27, 2009, in Journal of Folklore Research (An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology), by Maria Hnaraki, Director of Greek Studies, Drexel University (in English)
(d) June 13, 2009, in Avgi Anagnoseis by Anda Dialla, Director of the Historical Archive of the University of Athens Avgi Review (in Greek)

Converging Truths: Euripides' Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self Definition
Single-authored monograph Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden: Brill 2003).
Reviewed in Classical Review, vol 54, no. 2, 2004: 308-9.
Reviewed in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13.1, 2006: 125-27.

A Thematic Commentary on Euripides' Ion with special attention to literary and religious aspects, PhD dissertation, London 1996/97.


Peer Reviewed Articles/Chapters in Books:

Encyclopedia article on the definition and history of the concept of Hellenism from its origins to the present for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. (1,000 words). Forthcoming, December 2009.

"Plurality of Discourses in Euripides' Ion: Euripides as thinker and dramatist"
Archaiologia & Technes, Athens, March 2003: 97-100 (published in Greek).

"Sophocles and the West: the Evidence of the Fragments"
A. Sommerstein (ed.), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments.
Levante Editori, Bari, Italy, 2003: 57-76.
Reviewed in Classical Review, vol 54, no. 2, 2004: 301-3.

"The Rock of the Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy and Sophocles' Tereus"
F. Budelmann & P. Michelakis (eds), Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in Greek Literature in honor of P.E. Easterling. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London, 2001: 91-112. Special supplementary volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

"Reversed Heroism and Heroic Perversion in Euripides' Medea"
T. Shasha & D. Stuttard (eds), Dionysus, vol. 6, 1996, York: 39-42.

"The Marriage of Tragedy and Comedy in Euripides' Ion"
S. Jäkel & A. Timonen (eds), Laughter down the centuries, vol. II, Turku, 1995: 45-63.


Program Notes:

Filmography entries for Michel Cacoyannis' Electra; Iphigenia in Aulis, for the Electra festival and the Stanford Summer Theatre 2009 (1,000 words).

Program Notes/original research for the 2006 Michael Cacoyannis' cabaret version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata (25 pp.). Loyola Marymount University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Boston College, Hellenic College, Boston.

Program Notes for the 1998 University College London production of Euripides' Orestes (4pp.).

Program Notes for the 1998 Thiasos production of Euripides' Hippolytus (3pp.).
Triennial Classics Conference, Cambridge UK.


Research Project Funded and Completed:

January 2009: Report on representations of black slavery and Greco-Roman involvement in the slave trade from Africa, commissioned by Prof. Wole Soyinka in collaboration with the du Bois Institute, Harvard University, on a grant by the Ford Foundation. This report is part of a larger project on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade leading to a full mapping-out of the African diaspora since the Greco-Roman period.


Book/Article Reviews

Member of Editorial Board for Text and Presentation 2005-2010; the Comparative Drama Conference Series and The Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award.

Manuscript referee for Wiley-Blackwell 2008; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Journal 2007; Journal of Hellenic Studies 2006.

Book Review of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion. Translation and Commentary. Classical Review, vol. 49, no. 2, 1999: 353-54.

Book Review of Meagher, R.M., Euripides' Bakkhai. Translation and Commentary. Classical Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 1997: 196.


Honors and Awards

May 2010-August 2010: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on "Postcards from Greece: The uses of antiquity in Tourist Brochures and Popular Culture (1929-2009)"

April 2009-October 2009: Travel Grant for lectures at Stanford University; University of East London; Hellenic-American Union, Athens; MGSA conference, Vancouver.

August 2008-January 2009: Research Grant for work on Prof. Wole Soyinka's project on the trans-Saharan slave-trade. The project is based at the du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and is funded by the Ford Foundation.

May 2008-August 2008: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on "Funerary Rituals, Aeschylus' Eumenides and Sophocles' Antigone."

November 2007: Research Grant for working with a professional copy-editor on my volume Hellenisms.

May 2005-August 2005: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on "A revisionist Bakhtinian reading of late-fifth century tragedy".

May 2003-August 2003: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on Greek Ethnicity.

February 2002-May 2003:University of California, Los Angeles, Costen Instittue of Archaeology, Research Associate for my work on Athenian identity in late fifth century BC and on Greek Ethnicity.

January 2002-May 2002: Loyola Marymount, Faculty College Fellowship to complete monograph on Converging Truths: Euripides' Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition.

May 2001-August 2001: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on "Creating Modern Greek Identity: Perceptions of Greece in New Greek Cinema (1975-2000)."

May 2000-August 2000: Loyola Marymount, Summer Research Grant for work on "Sophocles and the West (Italy and Sicily): the evidence of the fragments."

1998-2000: A.G. Leventis Foundation, Special Post-doctoral Research Fellowship; research on "Dionysian and Apolline Poetics at the Festivals of Dionysus."

August 1998-Sept. 1999: Honorary Research Fellowship, University College London, Greek & Latin.

1992-1995: A.G. Leventis Foundation, research grant for work on doctoral thesis.

1992-1994: Hellenic Foundation, grant for extra research expenses of doctoral thesis.


Other Professional Activities

Conference Organizer, Presenter, MC:

June 2004-2010: Associate Director of the annual Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Tasks include: Screening an average of 160 abstracts and accepting the best-quality papers for presentation at the conference; organizing one to two panels per year on some aspect of classical drama/film; giving one presentation per year on a comparative drama topic; chairing most panels on Greek drama; organizing theatrical workshops; reviewing papers for the referred journal of the conference, Text & Presentation and The Philadelphia Constantindis Essay in Critical Theory Award.

October-November 2006: Presenter of Michael Cacoyannis' films and his cabaret version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and moderator for the Q & A session with actors Maia Morgenstern and Vladimir Ivanov. Loyola Marymount University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Boston University and Hellenic College, Boston.

April 2006: Organizer and Presenter of Alexander Payne's films at a tribute gala in his honor, at the Lincoln Center, New York.

June 2005: Presenter of Pantelis Voulgaris' films at the Motion Picture Academy in Los Angeles, and moderator for the Q & A session with the director and his wife Ioanna Karystiani, the scriptwriter of the film Brides.

January 2003-April 2003: Organizer and chairperson for a four-series documentary screenings at LMU on issues pertaining to Hellenic civilization.

March 2001-April 2001: Organizer and chairperson of two lectures as part of the fall series on "Greek Identity 1000 BC to 2000 AD."

October 2000-November 2000: Organizer and chairperson of 5-week lecture series on "Greek Identity 1000 BC to 2000 AD."


Documentary Interviews:

December 2004: Jon Mefford (Executive Producer). Interviewed for the special DVD features for the feature film Electra starring Jennifer Garner. Discussion of four ancient Greek tragedies (Aeschylus' Choephoroi, Sophocles' Electra, Euripides' Electra and Orestes). Release Date: October 2005.

August 2001: Bram Roos (Executive Producer), FilmRoos Productions. Interviewed by the History Channel in Athens for a two-hour special documentary on the "Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Greece." Aired in August 2002.


University Service
Faculty Senate Executive Board Member (2009-10)
Chair of Classics & Archaeology (2007- Present)
Humanities Director (2004-2006)
Faculty Senator (2008- 2011)
Member, Burns Teaching Awards Committee (2007-2008)
Member, Sabbatical Committee (2003-2006)
Member, Core Committee (2002-2005)

Academic Memberships
American Philological Association
Modern Greek Studies Association
California Classical Association, South
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London
Modern Language Association