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Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz participated in a panel discussion on “Prison and the Academy” at Princeton University. The panel addressed the question, “What is the ‘value’ of prison education?”

“Afrocentrism or Assimilation: The Case of Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth” by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was recently published as a chapter in the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was recently named the winner of the 2016 LCC Activism Award by the Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC) of the Society for Classical Studies for her “tireless work promoting the rights and well-being of sexual minorities.”

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was a respondent during two panel discussions at the fall meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) held Oct. 8-10 in Wilmington, Del.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz delivered the keynote address, “Intersectional analysis in Classics: Defining rape and race in Aeschylus’ Suppliants,” at the University of Auckland conference on Gender, identity and intersectionality in antiquity: Oppression and Privilege.”

Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, a book co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Teaching Literature Book Award.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently presented a series of lectures at universities across New Zealand. She discussed her research on Orestes and Pylades, as well as prison teaching and feminist scholarship in classics.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, and Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz gave a lead-off talk titled “22 Years of Feminist Theory and the Classics” at a conference on “Classics and the New Faces of Feminism.” The conference was held Jan. 31 at the Institute for Classical Studies in London.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Dr. Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton) jointly facilitated a roundtable discussion at the meetings of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the APA) in New Orleans, Jan. 8-11.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, published an article titled “Teaching Ancient Comedy: Joking about Race, Ethnicity, and Slavery” in From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom.