This article compares the idealism underwriting both the survival of Odysseus' family in Homer's Odyssey and hybridity in Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (2015).
Read Article
Program in Early Cultures
Sasha-Mae Eccleston
John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
Research Interests
Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, Roman Imperial Cultures, Classical Reception, Literary Theory, Ecocriticism , Critical Materialisms
Biography
An alumna of Brown Classics and Literary Arts, Sasha-Mae's research primarily interrogates the politics and ethics of form with an eye to questions of the human, the animal, and other kinds of embodied difference (e.g. race and/or gender). She is currently at work on two book projects. Humanizing Speech: Apuleius and the Ethics of Narrating, the first manuscript, explains the role Apuleius' treatment of the human animal boundary plays in his Middle Platonist narrative ethics. Epic Events, analyzes race and the rhetoric of time in post-9/11 American Classical reception.
She is the co-founder and co-president of Eos, a scholarly society dedicated to Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. She is also the co-founder of the International conference series, Racing the Classics. At Brown, she is the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics.
Recent News
Published in Modern Drama.
This article argues that Suzan-Lori Parks situates metal discursively in Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2015) to highlight speculation’s emancipatory potential.
Read Article
This article argues that Suzan-Lori Parks situates metal discursively in Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2015) to highlight speculation’s emancipatory potential.