Stephen Esposito
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 410
T/R: 11-12:30PM

Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 410
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4540 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
espo@bu.edu

Education
1984 Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University (Classics)
1976 M.A. Boston College (Classics)
1974 B.A. Boston College/Oxford University (Philosophy)
 
Positions Held
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Classics, Boston University, 2008-present
Senior Editor, Greek Drama Series, Focus Classical Library, 2001-present
Associate Professor, Boston University, 1996-present
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1987-95
Assistant Professor, Kent State University, 1983-85, 1986-87
Assistant Professor, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1985-86

Books In Progress
Sophocles Agonistes: The Struggle Between Reason, Faith, and Chance in Oedipus the King (University of Michigan Press).

Sophocles' Ajax: Translation, Interpretative Essays, and Notes (Focus Publishing).

Euripides and the Dramaturgy of Crisis written by William Arrowsmith, edited with introduction and notes by Stephen Esposito.
 
Books
Euripides’ Bacchae: Translation, Interpretative Essays, and Notes (Focus Classical Press, 1998) 126 pp.

Four Plays by Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles and Bacchae  ed. Stephen Esposito (Focus Publishing, 2002) 303 pp.
 
Articles
"The Changing Roles of the Sophoclean Chorus" Arion 3rd Series 4. 1 (Spring 1996) 85-114.

"The Third Stasimon of Sophocles’ Trachiniae" Classical World 91.1 (1997) 21-38.

"Euripides and the Dramaturgy of Crisis" by William Arrowsmith, edited by Stephen Esposito, Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 1.2 (1999) 201-26.

"Euripides the Interrogator and the Resurrection of his Andromache." Review article of William Allan The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford, 2000) in Classical Bulletin 77.2 (Winter, 2001) 245-252.

"Teaching Euripides’ Bacchae" in Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides ed. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, (2002) 188-202. This volume is part of the MLA series, Approaches to Teaching World Literature.

Reviews
Easterling, P. Sophocles: Trachiniae (1982) in American Journal of Philology 109 (1987) 135-39.

Barlow, S. Euripides: Trojan Women (1986).

West, M. Euripides: Orestes (1987) in New England Classical Journal
32-34.

Edmunds, L. Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, in New England Classical Journal 25 (August 1997) 21-22.

Morwood, James (trans.) Euripides, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen (1997).

Slavitt, D. / Bovie, P. (eds.) Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, The Bacchae (1998).

Slavitt, D. / Bovie, P. (eds.) Euripides, 2: Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (1998) in New England Classical Journal 26.2 (Nov. 1998) 51-55.

Blondell, Gamel, et al. Euripides, Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1999) and J. Morwood (Trans.) Euripides, Iphigeneia Among the Tauruans, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Rhesus (1999) New England Classical Journal 27.2 (2000) 96-98. 

Gumpert, M. Grafting Helen: The Abduction of the Classical Past (2002) Classical Review 54 (2004) 4553-5.

Scholarships/Grants
2006. Scholarship from the Universita degli Studi di Padova and Boston University to study 16th and 17th century editions of Greek drama in Padova, Italy (June).

2005. Massachusetts Department of Education, $27,400 grant for a 10-day Content Institute entitled "Tragedy and Hope: Investigating Tragic and Anti-Tragic World Views through Drama, Fiction, and Poetry" (June-July 2005). Principal academic behind this Institute; Selected a team of four colleages for assistance.

2004. Scholarship from the Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli and Boston University to study the great fresco at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii for 3 weeks (July-August).

1994-95. Junior Fellowship (Boston University Humanities Foundation).

1994-95. Harvard Widener Library Pass recipient (Boston University Humanities Foundation).

1984. Summer Research Grant (Kent State University).

1979. Fulbright-Hays (American Academy in Rome and Villa Vergiliana in Naples).

Lectures (selected)
2008, American Philological Society. "An unnoticed mirror scene in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos". National meeting, Chicago.

2007, American Philological Society. "The Date of Oedipus Rex". National meeting, San Diego.

2005, Association for Core Texts and Courses. "Odysseus and Sexual Temptation in Homer's Odyssey" National meeting, Vancouver, Canada (April).

2004, Association for Core Texts and Courses. "Understanding Greek Tragedy through Martin Heidedgger's Sein und Zeit." National meeting, Dallas (April).

2002, Association for Core Texts and Courses. "Whe the ancient Greeks wrote tragedies and the ancient Jews and Christians didn't." National meeting, Atlanta (April).

1999, University of Chicago. "Freud, Oedipus, and Working Through." Oedipus Conference (invited).