Ruby Blondell

Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, and Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington.[1] Their research and teaching centres on Greek intellectual history, gender studies, and the reception of ancient myth in contemporary culture.[2]

Career

Blondell completed their BA and MA in Classics at the University of Oxford (1978 and 1981, respectively), before receiving their PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.[3] Their doctoral thesis was entitled Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics.[4]

Upon the completion of their PhD, Blondell was a lecturer at Harvard University, before moving to the University of Washington in 1985, where they have taught ever since.[5] Their current teaching responsibilities are centred on topics of Greek literature (especially Greek tragedy), and Greek intellectual history and culture.

Blondell has held various positions within the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Society) and the Women's Classical Caucus;[6] and they are also a current administrator for the Lambda Classical Caucus.[7]

Research Publications

Blondell has published widely on topics of Greek intellectual history, gender studies, and the reception of myth in contemporary culture.[8] including the following three monographs:

  • Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation (Oxford University Press, 2013).[9][10]
  • The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues (Cambridge University Press, 2002).[11][12]
  • Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1989), published under previous name Mary Whitlock Blundell.[13]

Their current research project, developed from their 2015 Martin Lectures at Oberlin College, focuses on the representation of Helen of Troy in popular film and television.[14]

Blondell has edited several collections focused on gender and sexuality in the ancient world:

  • Humoerotica, co-edited with Sandra Boehringer (Archimede 5, 2018).[15]
  • Ancient Sex: New Essays, co-edited with Kirk Ormand - part of the Classical Memories/Modern Identities series (Ohio University Press, 2015).[16][17][18]
  • Queer Icons from Greece and Rome (Helios 35.2, 2008).[19][20]
  • Ancient Mediterranean Women in Modern Mass Media, co-edited with Mary-Kay Gamel (Helios 32.2, 2005).[21]

They have also produced several translations of the works of Sophocles and Euripides, including:

  • Sophocles: The Theban Plays, Antigone, King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus; Updated Translations with Introductory Essay and Notes (Focus Classical Library, Newburyport MA 2002).[22]
  • Sophocles: Oidipous at Colonus, Translated with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay (first published 1990; revised edition 2002; Focus Classical Library, Newburyport MA).[23]
  • Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides, co-authored with Bella Zweig, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Mary-Kay Gamel (Routledge, New York and London 1999).[24]

Media

Blondell has featured in the following media broadcasts discussing their research:

  • Letter of Liberty Podcast, Episode 19, discussing 'Helen of Troy' (2018).[25]
  • Interviewed for 'Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines', directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (2012).[26]
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References
  1. "Ruby Blondell | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  2. "Ruby Blondell | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  3. "Bio: Ruby Blondell". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  4. Blondell, Ruby (1989). Helping friends and harming enemies: a study in Sophocles and Greek ethics. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35116-4.
  5. "Bio: Ruby Blondell". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  6. "Ruby Blondell | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  7. "Lambda Classical Caucus". www.lambdacc.org. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  8. "Ruby Blondell | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  9. Blondell, Ruby (2013-05-07). Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731602.001.0001/acprof-9780199731602. ISBN 9780199344956.
  10. "BMCR review of 'Helen of Troy'".
  11. "The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  12. "BMCR Review of 'The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues'".
  13. "Helping Friends and Harming Enemies".
  14. "Ruby Blondell Launches 1000 Ships at Oberlin | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  15. "Archimède 5. 2018 - Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée – Europe (ArcHiMèdE) - Université de Strasbourg". archimede.unistra.fr. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  16. "Ancient Sex: New Essays | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  17. "BMCR Review 'Ancient Sex'".
  18. "The Ohio State University Press". ohiostatepress.org. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  19. "Queer Icons from Greece and Rome (edited, with an Introduction) | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  20. "Project MUSE - Helios-Volume 35, Number 2, Fall 2008". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  21. "Ancient Mediterranean Women in Modern Mass Media (edited, with an Introduction) | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  22. "Sophocles: The Theban Plays, Antigone, King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus; Updated Translations with Introductory Essay and Notes | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  23. "BMCR Review".
  24. "Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides | Department of Classics | University of Washington". classics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  25. "Episode 19 - Interview with Ruby Blondell on Helen of Troy". Letter of Liberty. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  26. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, retrieved 2019-05-21
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