David Kawalko Roselli,
Office: Balch 215
Office Hours: Monday 10-11 and by appointment
Biography
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.
Academic History
- B.A., New York University, Department of Classics
- M.A., University of Toronto, Department of Classics
- Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of Classics
Interests
- Greek Literature and Culture
- Ancient Theater
- Athenian Social History and Material Culture
- Reception Studies
- Critical Theory
Courses Taught
- Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
- Classical Myth in Film: Hollywood and the Avant-garde
- Critical Theory and Modern Culture
- The Margins of Greek Society
- Intermediate Greek
- Advanced Greek
- Senior Seminar
- Core 2: Cinema