Faculty Bios: Rachel Friedman
Associate Professor of Classics
Contact Rachel Friedman
Phone: 437-5602
Office: Eleanor Butler Sanders Hall 120
Rachel D. Friedman started teaching at Vassar in 1997 after receiving her Ph. D. in Classics from Columbia University and her B.A. from Barnard College. She is a Hellenist who specializes in the literature of the Archaic and Classical periods and has published articles on Homer, Herodotus, and Euripides. More recently she has been focusing on post-colonial appropriations of Classical Greek texts and has explored this interest in articles on Michael Ondaatje and Derek Walcott. She is currently working on a book-length study of Derek Walcott’s relationship to Homer. In addition to courses in Classics, she also teaches in the College Course and in the program in Jewish Studies.
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