Francisco Barrenechea
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD Columbia University
Office: Thomas Hall 244
Phone: 610-526-6539
Email: fbarrenech@brynmawr.edu
Research Interests:
Ancient theater (history, performance theory, and contemporary adaptations); Greek literature (Old and New Comedy, Euripides, Hellenistic poetry); Latin literature (epic, drama, novel); papyrology
Courses:
Elementary and Intermediate Latin, Homer, Latin Style, Fragmentary Literature, Ancient Drama and Performance
Publications:
“A Liberating Cruelty: Two Adaptations of Greek Myth for the Mexican Stage,” submitted for publication
“Didactic Aggressions in Lucan’s Nile Excursus,” provisionally accepted by the American Journal of Philology, pending final revisions
“Monstruo, discurso y caracterización en Melanipa sabia de Eurípides,” Acta Poética 29 (2008): 61-86
“A Fragment of Old Comedy: P. Columbia inv. 430,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 158 (2006): 49-54
“The Star Signs at Brundisium: Astral Symbolism in Lucan 2. 691-2,” Classical Quarterly 54 (2004): 312-7
Lecturas Áticas II: Cuestionarios y ejercicios, in collaboration with José Molina Ayala, Pedro C. Tapia Zúñiga, and María A. Valdez García (Mexico City, 2001)
“A New Document from the Sempronius Dossier: A Letter from Maximus,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001): 21-34
“Modelo para romper: Velásquez y la crítica a la autoridad médica del Siglo de Oro,” in Roger Bartra, El siglo de oro de la melancolía (Mexico City, 1998): 229-53
“El fragmento, una estética,” in Memorias de las Jornadas Filológicas de 1995 (Mexico City, 1996): 123-9
Personal Statement:
Francisco Barrenechea has written articles on Euripides, Lucan, and Greek papyri, and is currently finishing a monograph on Aristophanes' Wealth. His interests include ancient drama, its performance and contemporary adaptations, Latin epic, and papyrology.