Sarah E. Olsen

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Assistant Professor of Classics

[email protected]
413-597-4710
Hollander Hall Rm 153
At Williams since 2018

Education

B.A. Wellesley College (2008)
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Classics (2010)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Classics (2016)

Areas of Expertise

  • Greek drama (tragedy, comedy, satyr play)
  • Archaic Greek poetry
  • The ancient novel
  • Dance and music in antiquity
  • Gender and sexuality

 

Courses

CLGR 101(F)

Introduction to Greek

CLAS 202 / COMP 220 / THEA 220(F)

Greek Tragedy

CLAS 211 / THEA 211 / COMP 248

Performing Greece (not offered 2019/20)

CLAS 214 / COMP 252(S)

Athletics and Literature in Ancient Greece

CLAS 226 / COMP 226

The Ancient Novel (not offered 2019/20)

CLGR 401(S)

Homer: The Iliad

CLGR 404

Tragedy (not offered 2019/20)

Scholarship/Creative Work

Select Publications

  • 2017. “Les danseuses en Grèce antique. Performance, capacité d’agir, et divertissement.” Clio: Femmes, Genre, et Histoire 46: 19-43.
  • 2017. “The Fantastic Phaeacians: Dance and Disruption in the Odyssey.” Classical Antiquity 36: 1-32.
  • 2017. “Kinesthetic Choreia: Empathy, Memory, and Dance in Ancient Greece.” Classical Philology 112: 153-174.
  • 2015.“Conceptualizing Choreia on the François Vase: Theseus and the Athenian Youths.” Mètis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens N.S. 13: 107-121.
  • 2012. “Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.” American Journal of Philology 133: 301-322.

Current Committees

  • Committee on Priorities and Resources