Princeton University

Froma Zeitlin is Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She was also the Director of Judaic Studies from its founding (1996) until 2005. She has published extensively in the field of ancient Greek literature on epic, drama, and prose fiction, with special emphasis on gender, myth and ritual, and cultural studies. Her books include Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (1982), soon to appear in a second edition (2009), Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature (1996), a collection of her essays, and two co-edited volumes, both published in 1990, Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in its Social Context ; and Before Sexuality: Structures of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. She also edited and wrote an introduction to selected essays of Jean-Pierre Vernant, entitled Mortals and Immortals (1991). She continues to work on an expansion of her Sather lectures, Vision, Figuration, and Image from Theater to Romance. For Comparative Literature, she regularly teaches two courses in another, very different, specialty: “Texts and Images of the Holocaust” and “Stolen Years: Youth under the Nazis in World War II.”