Ruth Scodel | |
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Born | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Awards | Gildersleeve Prize Michigan Humanities Award |
Academic background | |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Thesis | The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides (1978) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Greek Literature |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Michigan Harvard University |
Ruth Scodel is an American classicist. She is the D.R. Shackleton-Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan.[1] Scodel specialises in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in Homer, Hesiod and Greek Tragedy. Her research has been influenced by narrative theory, cognitive approaches, and politeness theory.[2] In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]