Francisco Barrenechea is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College.  His interests include ancient drama, its performance and contemporary adaptations, Latin epic, and papyrology.  He has written articles on Euripides, Lucan, Greek papyri, and the reception of Greek drama.  He also just finished a monograph on Aristophanes entitled New Devotions: A Study of Aristophanes' Wealth, and is currently working on a book on the reception of Greek tragedy in contemporary Mexico.

Alberto Bernabé is Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid. He is the editor of the Orphicorum Fragmenta (2005-2007) and the author of many works on Orphism and Greek religion, literature, philosophy, and Mycenology.

Johanna Best is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. She got her B.A. in Classical Languages and Literature from Earlham College in 2002, her MA from Bryn Mawr in 2008, and was a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2009-2010.  She is beginning her dissertation on Greek roadside religious monuments.  Her areas of interest include Greek religion, architecture, archaeological computing, and educational outreach to the community.

Paola Corrente is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Greek Philology and Indoeuropean Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid. She studied Classics at University of Salerno (Italy) focusing on Greek and Latin religion, and anthropology at the University of Madrid before beginning her Ph.D. in history of religions. Her dissertation is in the field of comparative religions, especially of the ancient Greek and Near-Eastern traditions. She is now at Harvard University for a stay of six months. 

Fátima Díez Platas is Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her interests lie in ancient Greek iconography and figurate mythology in Classical tradition. She worked for Perseus Digital Library and the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, and is the author of Imágenes para un texto. Guía iconográfica de las ‘Metamorfosis’ de Ovidio (Tórculo, 2000) and the co-author of Lecturas del mito griego (Akal, 2002). She is currently working on the image of Dionysus in Archaic and Classical vase-painting.

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College.  His interests lie in the history of religions in the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on the marginal religious activities labeled Orphic and magic. He has just published the edited collection, The ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path, and is currently finishing a book project, Redefining Ancient Orphism.

Francesc Casadesús is Professor of Greek philosophy of the University of the Balearic Islands. His fields of research are Presocratic Philosophy, Orphism, Dionysism, Plato and Stoicism. Currently he is in charge of a research team studying the Derveni Papyrus and its similarities with the first Stoic philosophers.

Robert Germany is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Haverford College.  His research focuses on Greek New and Roman comedy and the intersection between Hellenistic philosophy and later theatrical traditions.  He is currently writing a book on the unity of time in Greek, Roman, and early modern theater.

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui is Assistant Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid. He is the author of Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and of other studies on Greek religion and literature and its Christian reception.

Ana I. Jiménez San Cristóbal is Associate Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid. She is the co-author (with A. Bernabé) of Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Leaves (Brill, 2008) and of other studies on Greek religion.

 

Steve Karacic received his B.A. in Latin from DePauw University in 2007 and his MA in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr in 2009.  He is currently a fourth year graduate student and PhD candidate in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology.  His dissertation research focuses on Southern Turkey during the Late Bronze Age.

Naomi Koltun-Fromm is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Religion Department, Haverford College. Prof. Koltun-Fromm's interests lie in the cross cultural, textual and interpretive intersections of religious communities in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. She is the author of a recently published book, Hermeneutics of Holiness: Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community (Oxford, 2010). Her more recent work focuses on Jerusalem and its religious representations where ever they may be found.

Astrid Lindenlauf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on the perception and management of waste and dirt in ancient Greece, the fortifications of Athens, and late archaic/early classical vase-painting.

Raquel Martín is Assistant Professor of Greek Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid. She has worked on Greek magic and religion, including the book Orfeo y los Magos (Madrid 2011). She has also worked on papyrology and Greek-Egyptian cultural relations.

Marco A. Santamaría is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classic Philology at the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on the influence of religion (especially the mystery cults) in Greek literature (archaic and hellenistic poetry), on Orphism and on eschatology (literary motif of catabasis, transmigration of the soul).

Asya Sigelman is Assistant Professor at the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. Her main area of research is Archaic Greek lyric and Athenian tragedy, and she is currently reworking into a book her dissertation on xenia and the unity of time in Pindar's victory odes.

Jennifer Tracy received her B.A. in Classics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 and her M.A. from Bryn Mawr in 2010. In her third year at Bryn Mawr, she is working on her preliminary examinations on the "Orphic" Gold Tablets, Alexander the Great and the Diadochi, Roman Religion, and Tacitus.

James Wright is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.  His primary interest is in the evolution of complex societies in the Aegean basin, and this leads to interests in architecture and urbanism, the social aspects of socio-political integration, and the uses of the landscape by humans. He is currently coordinating with colleagues the publication the excavation of Mycenaean cemeteries in the vicinity of ancient Nemea, Greece and bringing to press with Dr. Mary Dabney the results of excavations of the prehistoric settlement on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea, Greece.