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Froma Zeitlin

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Froma I. Zeitlin
Born(1933-09-05)September 5, 1933(age 90)
New York City,USA
Alma materRadcliffe College(BA)
The Catholic University of America(MA)
Columbia University
AwardsHoward T. Berhman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984[1]
Academic career
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineGreek Literature
InstitutionsRutgers University
Princeton University
Thesis(1970)

Froma I. Zeitlinis an AmericanClassics scholar.She specializes inancient Greek literature,with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the context of the visual culture of antiquity.[2]Zeitlin's work on establishing new approaches toGreek tragedyhas been considered particularly influential.[3]

Career

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Froma Zeitlin was born inNew York,and grew up on theUpper West Side,where she was educated in a public girls' high school.[4]In 1951 she began her studies atRadcliffe College(B.A.1954) and at theCatholic University of America(M.A.1965). After a nine-year break, she returned to graduate school, and was awarded her PhD byColumbia Universityin 1970.[4]Her thesis was entitledThe Ritual World of Greek Tragedy.[5]

During the final year of writing her dissertation, she started her first job atBrooklyn College.[4]From 1970 to 1976 she was an assistant professor atRutgers University,and she became an associate professor in 1967.[6]In 1965, during her time at Rutgers, she was awarded a grant from theNational Endowment for the Humanities.[4]

Zeitlin joined the faculty ofPrinceton Universityin 1976, where she taughtGreek Literature,Greek MythologyandGender studies.She joined Princeton at a time where there were other influential women in the department, notablyAnn Bergren,Janet Marion MartinandLois Hinckley,although Bergren and Hinckley left shortly afterwards.[4]She became Professor of Classics in 1983, and of Comparative Literature in 1989.[7]From 1992 Zeitlin was theCharles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature.In 1996 Zeitlin founded theJudaic Studiesprogram at Princeton, and directed it until 2005. In 1995/6 she was theSather Professor of Classical Literatureat theUniversity of California, Berkeley.Among other honors, she has been Directeur d’Études Associé at both theCollège de Franceand theÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études;she is an honorary fellow ofNewnham College,and in 2001 was elected a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]

Influence

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Froma Zeitlin was one of the first Classicists to apply methods fromStructuralism,Semioticsand Gender Studies to Ancient Literature.[8]She describes her interest inGender Studiesas being related to its value as a tool, through which the events ofGreek Tragedycould be understood.[4]She has also been considered particularly influential for her role in creating links between European theorists (such asJean-Pierre Vernant) and the field of Classics in America.[9][10][11] She has written numerous essays and monographs dealing with overarching cultural themes, many of which have influenced the creation of significant new approaches or debates.[12]

Personal life

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Zeitlin is the mother of the economic historianJonathan Zeitlin,the scholar of Chinese literatureJudith Zeitlin[1]and programming librarian Ariel Zeitlin. Her nephew is the theoretical chemistDavid Tannor.[13]

Selected works

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Single-authored books

  • The Ritual World of Greek Tragedy.Ann Arbor 1973
  • Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes.Lanham 1982. 2nd Ed, Lanham 2009.ISBN9780739125892
  • Playing the Other. Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature.Chicago 1996.ISBN0-22697922-9

Co-edited volumes

Notes

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  1. ^abJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation"Froma I. Zeitlin"
  2. ^"Froma Zeitlin | COMPARATIVE LITERATURE".complit.princeton.edu.
  3. ^Kraus, Chris, ed. (2007).Visualizing the tragic: drama, myth, and ritual in Greek art and literature: essays in honour of Froma Zeitlin(1. publ. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]:Oxford Univ. Press.p. 13.ISBN9780199276028.
  4. ^abcdefCatenaccio, Claire (12 June 2020)."Blog: Women in Classics: Froma Zeitlin".Society for Classical Studies.
  5. ^Zeitlin, Froma I. (1970).The ritual world of Greek tragedy(Thesis). New York.
  6. ^ab"Froma I. Zeitlin | Dean of the Faculty".dof.princeton.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 2022-12-08.Retrieved2017-01-24.
  7. ^"Froma Zeitlin | Princeton University - Academia.edu".princeton.academia.edu.Retrieved2020-04-08.
  8. ^Kraus, Chris, ed. (2007).Visualizing the tragic: drama, myth, and ritual in Greek art and literature: essays in honour of Froma Zeitlin(1. publ. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 13–4.ISBN9780199276028.
  9. ^Michelini, Ann N. (1 January 1999). "Replaying the Other".Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics.7(2): 154–173.JSTOR20163763.
  10. ^Pedrick, Victoria; Oberhelman, Steven M., eds. (2005).The soul of tragedy: essays on Athenian drama.Chicago:University of Chicago Press.pp.299–301.ISBN9780226653594.
  11. ^Kraus, Chris, ed. (2007).Visualizing the tragic: drama, myth, and ritual in Greek art and literature: essays in honour of Froma Zeitlin(1. publ. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 381–98.ISBN9780199276028.
  12. ^Kraus, Chris, ed. (2007).Visualizing the tragic: drama, myth, and ritual in Greek art and literature: essays in honour of Froma Zeitlin(1. publ. ed.). Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. p. 14.ISBN9780199276028.
  13. ^Saxon, Wolfgang (15 January 1992)."Dora Inselbuch, 93, Who Served On Hadassah Board for 16 Years".The New York Times.
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