Gustavus Adolphus College

Associate Professor
Classics

B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Eric Dugdale loves the rich variety of projects into which classics lures him. He has got down and dirty on archaeological projects in Sicily (KALAT) and the South of Italy (Univ. of Texas), he has worked on projects mapping the ancient world (InterActive Ancient Mediterranean and Barrington Atlas), he has done editorial work writing abstracts for classical articles (L'Année Philologique), he has acted in and directed plays, and he has even launched an interactive digital database (Pandora Project). Perhaps his favorite activity of all, though, is traveling the Mediterranean studying the ancient world in situ. During 2004-5 he took a leave of absence to teach at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

Eric has just finished a translation and commentary on Sophocles' Electra for the Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama series and is now working on a book on Greek drama for a new CUP series (Texts and Contexts) that he is co-editing with James Morwood. His other professional responsibilities include chairing the Committee for Ancient and Modern Performance of the American Philological Association and serving as webmaster for the Classical Association of Minnesota. He enjoys attending events on and off campus organized by Eta Sigma Phi, the Classics Honors Society. He recently presented a paper on Teaching Classics for Social Justice at the CAMWS conference in Gainesville and will be presenting a paper entitled Prophetic Voices in Sophocles at the American Philological Association conference in January.

Eric and his wife Brooke enjoy spending time together gardening, cycling, traveling and playing in a soccer league.