Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy; Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry; Reception of Ancient Greek Drama in Postcolonial Contexts; Engagements with Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Americas

• Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy 
• Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
• Reception of Ancient Greek drama in postcolonial and global contexts
• Engagements with Graeco-Roman antiquity across the Americas, and the way that these intersect with questions of gender, race, class, and national identity

Personal website: https://www.rosaandujar.com

Faculty website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rosa-andujar

Dr Rosa Andújar earned BA degrees from Wellesley and King's College, Cambridge, as well as an MA and PhD from Princeton. Prior to joining King's in September 2016, she was the first A. G. Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Greek & Latin at UCL (2012-2016).

Her research focuses on two distinct but complementary areas: ancient Greek tragedy (especially the tragic chorus) and global receptions of Greek drama in modernity. Her work on the latter has led to a wider research interest in engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity across the Americas (especially Hellenic classicisms), and the way that these intersect with questions of gender, race, class, and national identity. 

Her research has benefited from the generous support of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the British Academy, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Fundación BBVA (Spain), the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 

Rosa is the author of the forthcoming book Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge) which explores the versatility of choral performance, moving beyond a focus on the odes that the group sings to encompass the collective's broader polymorphic and polyphonic capabilities across the fifth century BCE. By focusing on the chorus' fragmentations, augmentations, interruptions, and interactions, the monograph conceptualizes and analyses the full range of choral experimentation in Greek tragedy. She also edited the first ever critical edition of Luis Alfaro's ‘Greek’ plays: The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada (Methuen Drama 2020). The book, which draws on her expertise both on Greek tragedy and its rich reception history, was awarded the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. Rosa is also editor of Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (De Gruyter 2018) and of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury 2020). Forthcoming and in progress books include the edited volume the Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, the critical bilingual anthology La Puerta Electra/The Electra Door: Cuban Rewritings of Greek Tragedy for Routledge, and the monograph Tragedy and Revolución: Refashioning Greek Drama in the Hispanic Caribbean, which addresses the reception of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy in Caribbean cultural and theatrical history. The latter two projects have been generously supported by a 2024 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship and a 2023 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, respectively.

Rosa is Editor of the American Journal of Philology. She also sits on the editorial board of two Brazilian Classics journals: Nuntius Antiquus and PhaoS - Revista de Estudos Clássicos. With Justine McConnell she co-edits the new Classics and the Postcolonial book series for Routledge. 

Rosa also serves on the Advisory Board of the new scholarly society Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World. In 2022 she was elected to the Program Committee of the Society for Classical Studies for a three year term, and from 2023-2025 she is serving as Vice President for Program and Chair of the Program Committee.