Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia is Professor of Classics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She holds an undergraduate degree in PsychKaterina Zacharia is Professor of Classics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Athens, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from University College London. Her main interests and publications are in classical Greek literature, especially tragedy, comedy, and epic, and its reception, esp. film; the social and political history of archaic and classical Greece; Greek ethnicity; and, the reception of antiquity. She is the author of Converging Truths: Euripides’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition (Leiden: Brill 2003), and editor and major contributor for Hellenisms: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum 2008). She spent 2010-11 in Athens on two consecutive Research Fellowships, the first awarded by the Initiative for Heritage Conservancy (June-Dec. 2010), and the second, an Onassis Foreign Fellowship (Jan.-July 2011), for her work on “Postcards from Greece: The uses of antiquity in tourist brochures and popular culture from 1929-present.” She is an experienced organizer of theatrical performances and workshops, artistic events, and film retrospectives, and is an advisor for the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation on Letters and the Arts in Athens, Greece.