David Kawalko Roselli

Professor Roselli works broadly on the cultural history of ancient Greece and on modern ideas about culture and class. He is the author of Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011). He is currently writing a book on the representation of laborers in Ancient Greece and their role in Greek drama. He is also working on the portrayal of human sacrifice in Greek tragedy and how its reception has informed our modern understanding of the “tragic.”

His articles and essays have been published in such journals as Phoenix, Helios, Classical Antiquity, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. He has published articles in various "Companions" to the Ancient World (e.g., Cambridge, Blackwell), Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History, and Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Roselli has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Fulbright Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). He has also been the recipient of the Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award (Scripps College) and the Graves Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Actual Teaching in the Humanities (ACLS).

In addition to teaching all levels of Greek and Latin, Roselli offers courses on the culture and reception of ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. He also teaches courses on critical theory and film studies. He is affiliated with the Humanities Major: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and regularly contributes courses to the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities.