Sarah Nooter
Sarah Nooter (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2008) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics. She has written articles and reviews on Greek tragedy and modern reception. Her first book, When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy, is due to be published in the coming year with Cambridge University Press. She is currently writing a book on comparative drama in Athens and in parts of Africa in the twentieth century. Her interests include Athenian drama, archaic poetry, literary theory, and contemporary poetry and theater. She is Book Review Editor of Classical Philology.
Contact
Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
office: Wieboldt 115
tel.: 773-834-9755
email: nooter@uchicago.edu
Honors and Awards
- Polychronis Foundation Scholar 2005–6 (Columbia University)
- Members’ Classical Essay Prize 2002 (U. Cambridge, Faculty of Classics)
- Lionel Pearson Fellowship in Classics, 2001–2 (American Philological Association)
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
- Hutchins Prize in Greek, 2001 (Amherst College)
- Rolfe Humphries Poetry Prize, 2001 (Amherst College)
- Laura Ayres Snyder Poetry Prize, 2000 (Amherst College)
- MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award in Poetry, 1999 (Amherst College)
- William C. Collar Prize in Greek, 1998 (Amherst College)
- Academy of American Poets Prize, 1998
Publications
Book
- When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes
- “Language, Lamentation and Power in Sophocles’ Electra”, Classical World, forthcoming.
- “Poetic Speakers in Sophocles”, in A Companion to Sophocles (Blackwell Publishing), ed. Kirk Ormand, forthcoming.
- “Tragedy, Sacrifice, and the Averted Gaze”, in The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700–1900, Smart Museum Exhibition Catalogue (University of Chicago Press), ed. Anne Leonard, forthcoming.
- “Uncontainable Consciousness in Sophocles’ Ajax”, Animus 13, Summer 2009.
Reviews
- Review of Harrison, S. J., ed. Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English, Modern Philology, forthcoming.
- Review of Sophocles’ Ajax, trans. by John Lipton, BMCR 2008.08.44.
- Review of Walton, J. M., Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, CML 27.1, Spring 2007.
- “On Not Knowing Greek Tragedy: A Review Essay”, Text and Presentation: The Comparative Drama Conference Series, Spring 2006.
Most Recently Taught Courses
- Aeschylus and Late Lyric Poetry
- Elegy and Iambic Poetry
- Tragedy in Athens and Africa
- Lyric and Epinician Poetry
- Greek Poetry Survey
- Greek Thought and Literature
- Intermediate Greek: Sophocles
- Advanced Greek: Euripides
- Introductory Greek