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Emmanuela Bakola is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Faculty of the Arts, University of Warwick. She joined the University of Warwick in 2015, initially as a Leverhulme Research Fellow and from January 2016 as Assistant Professor, and then Associate Professor. Prior to her appointment at Warwick, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UCL (2007-12) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at King's College London (2013-15).
Her research focuses on Greek theatre (tragedy, comedy and satyr play), with particular interest in the relationship of ancient comedy to other literary genres, ancient literary criticism, the theatricality of Greek tragedy (especially tragic space), and tragedy's interactions with early Greek philosophy, especially views about nature and the cosmos. Her current major project is Performing the Cosmos: The Erinyes and the Economy of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which offers a re-reading of the Oresteia in light of early views about the cosmos as an economic and biological equilibrium. In 2021-2023, she held both a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship and a Humboldt Fellowship to support this research.
Professor Bakola's publications include the Oxford University Press monograph Cratinus and the Art of Comedy and the co-edited Cambridge University Press volume Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres. Her numerous scholarly articles explore topics such as spatial symbolism in Greek tragedy, the chthonic in Aeschylus' Oresteia, textile symbolism, and the relationship between wealth and cosmic order in ancient Greek thought. Her work demonstrates a consistent engagement with how ancient Greek literature conceptualizes space, the natural environment, and cosmic order.
She has organized several major academic events, including Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment (KCL, Feb 2014), Locating the Daimonic: Daimones, Spaces and Places in the Greek World (KCL, March 2015), and Craft Process and Cultural Response: Making, and thinking about making, in Greco-Roman antiquity (KCL, Oct 2015).
Professor Bakola teaches undergraduate modules on Ancient Greek Theatre, Space and Place in Ancient Greek Literature, Greek Culture and Society, and Greek Myth: Narratives, Sources, Approaches. She serves as Admissions Tutor & Open Days Coordinator and Senior Tutor in her department. Her PhD supervision includes completed work by Stavropoulou, E. on Metal materiality and Divine Agency: Towards a new reading of the Seven Against Thebes and current research by Zhang, D. on Winds in the tragedy of Sophocles (completion anticipated 2024).
