Rosa Andújar

Rosa Andújar joined the faculty of Barnard in 2026. She received BA degrees from Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, as well as an MA and PhD from Princeton University. Prior to joining Barnard, she taught at University College London and King’s College London. 

Professor Andújar’s research focuses on Ancient Greek Literature as well as its rich and global afterlife in modernity. She has published widely on Greek drama in its fifth-century Athenian context as well as its modern reception, particularly across the Americas. She is the author of Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2025) and the editor of The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro (Methuen Drama, 2020), which won the 2020 London Hellenic Prize. Other publications include the edited volumes Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy (De Gruyter, 2018), as well as a range of influential journal articles and book chapters, such as “Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean,” which was awarded the AJP Best Article Prize for 2022. Since 2024, she is also the Editor of the American Journal of Philology.

 As someone who arrived at Wellesley intending to study Math and Physics (but unexpectedly ended up majoring in Classics), Prof. Andújar is passionate about introducing students of all backgrounds to the thrills and challenges of the ancient world.