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I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Master of Arts in Ancient Greek at Western where I taught for several years. I obtained a PhD in Ancient Greek at Bryn Mawr College in 1995, when I began teaching at Laurier. My academic passion is the culture of Classical Athens, especially its drama and theatre. I have published three monographs, over two dozen refereed articles and book chapters, and as many encyclopedia articles, reviews and shorter pieces on Greek poetry and drama. You will find downloadable samples of my work, and a complete CV, at wlu-ca.academia.edu/JudithFletcher.
I teach courses in classical languages, ancient history, literature, and gender and sexuality in Greece and Rome. I recently developed a course on crime and justice in the ancient world that examines the development of legal processes associated with crimes, such as homicide, and their representation in Athenian drama. I also have a long-standing interest in the Classical Reception, specifically how ancient literature is reinterpreted in contemporary culture including novels, films, and children’s culture. This too is the topic of a new course that I have developed. I have a book in progress on the underworld in contemporary culture.
Academic service includes involvement in the Classical Association of Canada. I am also associate editor (Greek Literature) for the CAC’s internationally renowned journal, Phoenix.
My recent SSHRC award funds a project on Law and Justice in Aristophanes
- 2013-2017 SSHRC Insight Grant “Law and Justice in Aristophanes.”
- 2008- 2011 SSHRC Standard Research Grant “The Tragic Decree: Law and Theater in Classical Athens.”
- 2004-2007 SSHRC Standard Research Grant “Oaths and Perjury in Classical Greek Poetry and Drama.”
- 2009 The Gildersleeve Prize for the best article in The American Journal of Philology v. 129 [(2008) “A Trickster’s Oath in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes,” AJP 129: 23-46].
- 2000-2001 Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Ancient Drama and Its Reception (CADRE), University of Nottingham.
- Wilfrid Laurier Faculty Merit Award, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015
I have research assistantship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in ancient Greek language and literature.
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of gender and sexuality in antiquity; ancient Greek law and social history; and Classical Reception.
- (2014)"Women's Oaths," in Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, A. Sommerstein and I. Torrance (eds.) (de Gruyter) 156-178.
- (2014) "Polyphony to Silence: The Jurors of the Oresteia," College Literature 41: 56-75.
- (2013) "Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles' Philoctetes and Ajax," in Opsis: Greek and Roman Stagecraft and Spectacle, V. Liapos and G.M. Harrison (eds.) (Brill) 199-216.
- (2013) "The Catabasis of Mattie Ross in the Coens' True Grit," Classical World 107: 237-254.
- (2013) articles on "Sophocles' Antigone," "Antigone," "Creon," "Rape," "Virginity," "Oaths," "Voting," "Burial," and "Supplication," in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy, H. Roisman (ed.) (Wiley-Blackwell).
- (2012) Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. (Cambridge University Press).
Contact Info:
T: 548.889.5051
Office location: DAWB 4-152 (Dr. Alvin Woods Building, Waterloo campus)
Languages spoken: English, French