Jocelyn Rachel Moore

Department of Classics 108 Birdwood Ct.

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903
P.O. Box 400788 540-448-8551
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4788 jrr2zx@virgi nia.edu

SPECIAL FIELDS
Greek Tragedy and Comedy, Social History and the Ancient Family, Reception

EDUCATION
2017 University of Virginia Ph.D. (Classics)
2012 University of Virginia M.A. (Classics)
2011 Washington University at St. Louis M.A. (Classics)
2008 Catholic University of America B.A. (Greek and Latin)
2007 American School of Classical Studies, Summer Session

Dissertation: “When You Can’t Go Home Again: The Destruction of the oikos in Greek Tragedy”
Supervisor: Jon Mikalson
Readers: Jenny Clay, David Kovacs, John Lyons

Master’s Paper: “Legitimacy and Hippolytus’ Bastardy in Euripides’ Hippolytus”

Supervisor: David Kovacs

Special Author Commentary (Ph.D.): Roman New Comedy, supervised by John Miller

PUBLICATIONS

I) BOOK PROJECT
If These Walls Could Speak: The Demise of the Oikos in Greek Tragedy.
This book explores the house in Greek tragedy as an object capable of arousing contemporary
fifth-century Athenian anxieties regarding individual household stability. Trauma of the oikos, I
argue, is central to the genre of Greek tragedy. Rather than concentrating on an inside-outside
dichotomy of the space I focus on the instability of the structure as a manifestation, literal, of the
personal household’s developing instability. Linking the monstrously dysfunctional households
of tragedy with the fifth-century oikos is the audience’s experience as spectators of the house and
household. Case-studies of Agamemnon, Antigone, Heracles, and Ion frame the house as a
central character in relation to different household traumas where extinction is threatened,
assured, fulfilled, and averted. These are set between chapters on each playwright, tracing a
development of conventions ripe for creative interpretation. Manuscript under revision, proposal
available upon request.

II) ARTICLES
Forthcoming. “Houses that Live and Die: From Greek Tragedy to the Gothic,” in The Dark Thread:
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales, ed. John Lyons. University of Delaware. 299-320.
Under Review. “Oikos and Thematic Unity in Euripides’ Heracles.” 10,900 words.
Under Review. “Bringing Down the House: Household, Polis, and Identity in Euripides’ Heracles.”
9,000 words.
In Progress. “Seneca Inherits a Haunted House: Metonym of House and Inhabitants in
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Seneca’s Thyestes.”

III) ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS

2009. Three entries in Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece, ed. Sabine Albersmeier.
New Haven: Yale University Press

IV) REVIEWS
December 2017. “Review of Douglas Cairns, Bloomsbury Companion to Sophocles’ Antigone.”
Religious Studies Review: 295.
In Progress. “Review of Mario Telò and Mellissa Mueller, eds., The Materialities of Greek
Tragedy Object and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.” Classical Journal.

TEACHING
I) LATIN LANGUAGE COURSES, BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS
Introductory Latin (UVA, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013)
Textbook: Wheelock’s Latin
Intermediate Latin (UVA, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2016); Instructor of record
Authors: Ovid, Virgil, Catullus, Caesar
Accelerated Introductory Latin (UVA, Summer 2016)
Textbook: Learn to Read Latin (Keller and Russell)
Accelerated Intermediate Latin (UVA, Summers 2017 and 2014)

II) CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE-IN-TRANSLATION COURSES

Tragedy to Horror (UVA, Fall 2018, Guest Secondary Instructor, four seminars)
Greek Mythology (Teaching Assistant, UVA, Spring 2017)
Ancient Magic (Teaching Assistant, Wash U, Spring 2011)
Greek History: Mycenae through Alexander (Teaching Assistant, Wash U, Fall 2010)
Greek and Latin Etymology (Teaching Assistant, Wash U, Spring 2010)
Not Members of this Club: Women and Slaves (Teaching Assistant, Wash U, Fall 2009)

PRESENTATIONS
2020. “Enacting a House for the Eumenides in the Oresteia,” Society for Classical Studies
conference (Washington, DC). January 2-5.
2019. “Euripides and the Political Pathos of the Falling House,” international conference: Politics
and Poetics: New Approaches to Euripides at École normale supérieure (Lyon, France). June
27-29.
2018. “Constructing Apollo’s Domos in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Euripides’ Ion,” national
conference: Ancient Drama in Performance V at Randolph College (Lynchburg, VA).
October 5-7.
2018. “‘Razing the Roof’ in Agamemnon and Heracles,” CAMWS Annual Meeting (Albuquerque,
NM). April 12.
2018. “Antigone’s Identity Crisis: Western Individualism and the Collective Family Unit,” invited
lecture, Williams College. January 19.
2017. “Family Men?: Household-Attachment in Euripides’ Middle-Aged Males,” international
conference: VIII ARACHNE Conference (Nordic Network for Women’s History and Gender
Studies in Antiquity): Ages, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World (University of
Gothenburg). October 25-7.
2017. “Is Antigone an epiklēros? Questioning the Epiklerate in Sophocles’ Drama,” international
Conference: The Fifth Pacific Rim Conference on Greek Drama (University of British
Columbia). July 5-8.
2016. “The Death of the oikos in Antigone,” CAMWS Annual Meeting (Williamsburg, VA). March
17.
2013. “Illegitimacy and Society in Euripides’ Hippolytus,” 11th Annual Jefferson Fellows
Symposium (Charlottesville, VA). February 16.
2011. “Careful Where You Point Your Bow: Birds and Pollution in Euripides’ Ion,” CAMWS
Annual Meeting (Grand Rapids, MI). April 20.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2016-2017 Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2015 Lazenby Summer Fellowship
2011-2016 Harrison Family Jefferson Fellowship
2008 Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

OUTREACH
2017-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought at the University of
Virginia

REFERENCES
Jon Mikalson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Classics.
jdm9x@virginia.edu
Department of Classics
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

John Miller, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics

jfm4j@virginia.edu
Department of Classics
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Jenny Strauss Clay, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Classics.

jsc2t@virginia.edu
Department of Classics
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903