Erika Weiberg, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies

Dr. Erika Weiberg researches and teaches Greek language and literature, with a focus on Greek poetry, gender and sexuality, and theory and reception. She received her PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016 and taught at Florida State University from 2016 to 2020, when she joined the faculty at Duke.

Their current book project, titled Seeing Women's Wounds: Trauma and Homecoming in Greek Tragedy, investigates the performance of women's emotional pain as a central feature of plays about homecoming. This book asks what public feelings and counter-narratives about trauma are explored through the prominent female characters of tragic nostos stories, for whom the story of homecoming is not one of salvation and recovery of the self, but rather of revenge, replacement, erasure, and escape.

She is also at work on a second book project that investigates how contemporary writers and performance artists engage with Greek mythology to reimagine assumptions about gender.

Contact Info:

Office Location:
Office Phone:	(919) 681-4292
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2021):

• GREEK 101.01, ELEMENTARY GREEK Synopsis

  Gray 228, MWF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as GREEK 551.01)

• GREEK 102.01, ELEMENTARY GREEK Synopsis

  Allen 226, MWF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM

• CLST 480S.01, CAPSTONE SEMINAR Synopsis

  Social Sciences 109, TuTh 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

• GREEK 552.01, ELEMENTARY GREEK FOR GRADS Synopsis

  Allen 226, MWF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM

Office Hours:

Dr. Weiberg has office hours on Monday at 12-1 pm on Zoom and on Wednesday at 3-4 pm in Allen 227. Please request an appointment or the Zoom link over email.

Education:

D.Phil.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

2016

Keywords:

Gender History and Theory • History of sexuality • Psychic trauma in the theater • Theater--Greece

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Weiberg, EL, The Bed and the Tomb, Mnemosyne, vol. 73 no. 5 (January, 2020), pp. 729-749, Brill [doi]  [abs]
2. Weiberg, E, Learning to Bear Witness: Tragic Bystanders in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, in Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome, edited by Karanika, A; Panoussi, V (January, 2020), pp. 177-191, Routledge, ISBN 978-0815373476  [abs]
3. Weiberg, EL, Tectius illa cupit: Female Pleasure in Ovid's Ars amatoria, Helios: a Journal Devoted to Critical and Methodological Studies of Classical Culture, Literature, and Society, vol. 47 no. 2 (2020), pp. 161-189, Project Muse [doi]
4. Weiberg, E, Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Heracles, in The Materialities of Greek Tragedy, edited by Telò, M; Mueller, M (August, 2018), pp. 63-78, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1350028791  [abs]
5. Weiberg,, The Writing on the Mind: Deianeira's Trauma in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Phoenix, vol. 72 no. 1/2 (2018), pp. 19-19, Phoenix [doi]