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. She is working on a book about Sophocles and poetic language. Her interests include Athenian drama, archaic poetry and religious thought, literary theory and linguistics, and contemporary poetry and theater.
Contact
Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637
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
- "Poetic Speakers in Sophocles", in A Companion to Sophocles (Blackwell Publishing), ed. Kirk Ormand, forthcoming.
- "Tragedy, Sacrifice, and the Averted Gaze in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Painting", in The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900, Smart Museum Exhibition Catalogue, forthcoming.
- "Uncontainable Consciousness in Sophocles' Ajax", Animus 13, Summer 2009.
- 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
- GREK 10100, Introduction to Attic Greek
- GREK 31600, Euripides
- GREK 20200, Intermediate Greek, Sophocles
- HUMA 12100, Greek Thought and Literature