Professor Laura Carrara

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Laura Carrara studied Classical Philology at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; she earned her doctoral Degree at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with a thesis dedicated to the fragmentary plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides about the myth of the Corinthian seer Polyidus (published in Rome, 2014). 

She then moved to Germany, joining the University of Tübingen and the Heidelberg Academy for Humanities and Sciences as a member of several cooperative research projects mostly devoted to late antique and byzantine literature and concerning natural catastrophes, oracles, and chronicles. 

In 2019, while serving as invited guest professor for Classical Philology at the University of Dresden, she was awarded a state fellowship by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research and went back to the University of Pisa, where she is now Associate Professor for Greek Language and Literature at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics. 

In recent years, she has published widely on Greek Drama, including a new monograph on fragmentary satyric and ‘prosatyric’ plays (Il nome e il genere, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice 2024). 

As T.B.L. Webster Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies in London for the academic year 2024-5, she will work on a project about versus iterati (repeated lines) in the theatre of Euripides, with the aim of applying the concept of Homeric formularity to the composition of Greek classical tragedy.