Emilia A. Barbiero is Assistant Professor of Classics. She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Toronto.
Barbiero is a philologist whose research interests focus on Roman republican literature and ancient epistolography. Her current project is a book on the letters in Plautus which seeks to discern how the playwright manipulates epistolary conventions to cause comic mischief and uses text as a prop in the oral medium of drama. It argues that the embedded letters in Plautus’ corpus represent the theatrical script, and therefore that they both demonstrate the textuality of the oeuvre and function metapoetically to cast an image of Plautus’ creativity within the play. Barbiero has published on various other Plautine topics besides letters, including the interaction of oratory and comedy, Plautus' conceptions of 'the new' and the mode of his translation. She has also written articles on Second Sophistic and late antique epistolography. Her future research plans revolve around the Catullan corpus and its ‘thingliness’.
Before joining NYU, Barbiero was Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and held visiting positions at NYU and Dartmouth College.
Emilia Barbiero
Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D. 2014 (Classics), University of Toronto; M.A. 2009 (Classics) University of Toronto; B.A. 2008 (Classics) University of Toronto
Ancient comedy, Roman republican literature and culture, Ancient epistolography
BOOKS
Letters in Plautus: Reading Between the Lines, under review at Cambridge University Press.
ARTICLES
“Myth, Letters and the Poetics of Ancestry in Plautus’ Bacchides,” Ramus 47.1 (2018): 1-25.
“Dissing the Δὶς ἐξαπατῶν: Comic One-Upmanship in Plautus’ Bacchides,”Mnemosyne 69 (2016): 648-67.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“What’s New? The Possibilities of Novelty in Plautus’ Casina,” submitted to C. Demetriou and S. Papaioannou (eds.): Plautus Doctus, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
“Alii rhetorica tongent: Plautus and Public Speech,” forthcoming in D. Dutsch and G. F. Franko (eds.): A Companion to Plautus, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA
“Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites,” in M. Biraud and A. Zucker (eds.): The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?, Brill, Leiden, 2018: 42-58.
“Two Clouded Marriages: Aristainetos' Allusions to Aristophanes' Clouds in Letters 2.3 and 2.12,” in T. Marshall and T. Hawkins (eds.): Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire, Bloomsbury, NY, 2015: 239-58.
TRANSLATIONS
Plautus’ Trinummus, in preparation for University of Wisconsin Press.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
“La Lettre,” Dictionnaire des images métapoétiques (ARC Tours-Poitiers).
“Sphragis,” Dictionnaire des images métapoétiques (ARC Tours-Poitiers).
REVIEWS
Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard (eds.) 2018 Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming in Phoenix.
Renato Raffaelli and Alba Tontini (eds.) (2017) Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates XX-XXI. Truculentus. Vidularia (Sarsina, 24 settembre 2016). QuattroVenti. Forthcoming in Gnomon.
Amy Richlin (2017) Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming in Classical Philology.
Sophia Papaioannou (ed.) (2014) Terence and Interpretation. Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. In Classical Journal Online 2016.01.05.
Siobhán McElduff (2013) Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source. New York: Routledge. In CW 107 (2014): 562-64.
Eckard Lefèvre (2011) Plautus' Bacchides. ScriptOralia, 138. Reihe A: Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, Bd 40. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2. In BMCR 2013.01.35.