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Laurialan Reitzammer (Ph.D. Berkeley) studies Greek literature, mythology, and religion. Her first book, The Athenian Adonia in Context: The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice (2016) examines literary and visual representations of an ancient Greek women's festival to argue that the performance of the ritual offered a critique of mainstream cultural practices. She has published essays on Euripides' Bacchae,Ìý ³§´Ç±è³ó´Ç³¦±ô±ð²õ’ Oedipus at Colonus, and a modern adaptation of Euripides’ Medea (Luis Alfaro’sÌýMojada). Lauri is currently at work on a book project on ³Ù³ó±ðô°ù¾±²¹ (sacred sightseeing) in Classical Athenian drama, as well as a monograph on Euripides (Brill’s Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry). She is also co-editing a volume on the New Euripides Papyrus (with John Gibert and Yvona Trnka-Amrhein). She has been awarded fellowships from the Loeb Foundation, a CHA Faculty Fellowship, and a College Scholar Award, and she was the recipient of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award and the CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching 2018-19. She has designed an online ancient Greek class, and she teaches courses on Greek poetry and prose as well as Greek mythology and religion.

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