COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Areas of Interest: classical reception, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, theatre and performance studies, North American literature, Irish literature, tragedy, digital humanities 

Sophia (she/her) is a PhD student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Classics and a Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Theatre and Performance Studies. 

She holds a BA in Classical Languages and Literature from Agnes Scott College (2020) and an MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford (2021). Under the supervision of Professor Constanze Güthenke, she completed her master's dissertation entitled "Mothers, Children, and Tragic Overliving: Reading Euripides’ Medea and Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…" 

Outside of her coursework, Sophia has pursued a range of interests, including participating in excavations affiliated with the American school and working on digital humanities projects for the Center for Hellenic Studies. At the University of Oxford, she completed an internship developing materials to support the university's Flexible and Inclusive Teaching (FIT) initiatives. Before coming to Northwestern, Sophia worked as an Academic Advisor for undergraduate students at Agnes Scott College.

Within the context of classical reception, Sophia is interested in postcolonial and feminist receptions of ancient Greek and Roman tragedy. Her work aims to find the intersection between ancient texts and the sociopolitical issues of today.