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Laurialan Reitzammer (Ph.D. Berkeley) studies Greek literature, mythology, and religion. Her first book,ÌýThe Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural PracticeÌý(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 published essays on Euripides'ÌýBacchae,Ìý Sophocles’ÌýOedipus at Colonus, and a modern adaptation of Euripides’ Medea(Luis Alfaro’s Mojada). Lauri is currently at work on a book project onÌýtheôriaÌý(sacred sightseeing) in Classical Athenian drama, as well as a monograph on Euripides (Brill’s Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry). She is also co-editing a volume on the New Euripides Papyrus (with John Gibert and Yvona Trnka-Amrhein). 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 gender and sexuality, and Greek mythology and religion.

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