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Naomi A. Weiss is a Professor of Classics at Harvard University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She joined Harvard in 2014 after completing a BA and MSt at the University of Oxford and a PhD in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Greek literature, drama, and performance culture, with a particular emphasis on music, gender, and reception studies. She is on leave for the fall 2025 semester.
Her work bridges interdisciplinary approaches to classical texts, integrating analysis of tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays with studies of ancient music, dance, and cultural memory. Notable publications include The Music of Tragedy (2018), Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (2021), and Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama (2023). She collaborates actively with scholars like Lauren Curtis and Sarah Olsen on projects such as a new commentary on Euripides' Orestes.
Weiss’s research explores intersections of genre theory, performance phenomenology, and modern adaptations of classical drama. Her current project examines how Greek tragedy interrogates the spectator’s sensory experience through spatial and bodily dynamics in fifth-century drama.
