About

Emmanuela (she/they pronouns) is a Classics scholar and humanist who specializes in ancient Greek and Roman theater. Ηer dissertation investigates the issues of forced displacement, belongingness, and agency of marginalized protagonists of Attic drama. Her research explores the collective and individual tragic figure of the migrant other and their connections with both ancient and contemporary sociopolitical realities. Her research on contemporary forced migration using computational methods in Global South contexts, conducted in the Low-Resource Language Lab (LOREL Lab), is an additional joy to her.

She received her undergraduate degree in modern and ancient Greek, and Latin Literature at the University of Crete, and an M.A. in ancient Greek and Latin Philology from the University of Heidelberg. Her master’s thesis is written on the presence of the Underworld in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. After her research stay at the University of Oxford, she began researching (post)colonial reworkings of ancient materials, particularly those in modern Greek and Hispanophone literature, incorporating performance and modern classical reception studies into her scholarship.

Emmanuela is the Argyropoulos Graduate Fellow of Hellenic Studies, who taught modern Greek at UCSB for five years, and she is a multiple award-winning Teaching Assistant. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduates in ancient and modern language courses, seminars on race, ethnicity and gender, and modern classical receptions, and collaborating in computational projects.

Emmanuela is also a social-justice scholar and educator who collaborates in global antiquity-related and public-facing projects such as The Odyssey Project and a Modern Greek Studies Association-funded podcast on diasporas.