Areas of Expertise: Greek and Roman drama; ancient music and dance; theater and performance; reception studies; landscape and the environmental humanities; mythology.
Claire Catenaccio is a scholar of Ancient Greek literature, particularly drama, and its modern reception. As a dramaturg and director, she has worked extensively with contemporary stagings of ancient texts. She is the author of Monody in Euripides: Character and the Liberation of Form in Late Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which explores the rise of solo actor's song in Athenian drama. She has written articles on speaking landscapes in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, on dreams in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Plutarch's Lives, on singing heroes in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, on messenger speeches in Seneca's tragedies, and on the transformation of the myth of Orpheus in the Broadway musical Hadestown. Her current research focuses on the relationship between dreams and drama in ancient and modern art.
At Georgetown, Professor Catenaccio teaches courses on the Ancient Greek language, Classical mythology, tragedy and comedy, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Shakespeare's plays set in Ancient Greece and Rome.
Degrees: A.B. in Classics, Harvard College (2007); M.Phil in Classics, Oxford University (2009); Ph.D. in Classics, Columbia University (2017). Before coming to Georgetown in 2019, Professor Catenaccio taught for two years as an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.
Contact: claire.catenaccio@georgetown.edu
Publications: https://georgetown.academia.edu/ClaireCatenaccio
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of Classics