Sarah Nooter

Sarah Nooter

Sarah Nooter writes about Greek poetry and its modern receptions, especially about questions of language, sound, voice, embodiment, and performance. She is the author of When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (2012), The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus ( 2017), and Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality (2023). She is co-editor of Sound and the Ancient Senses (Routledge, 2018) and Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical (Bloomsbury, 2024), and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Classical Philology. Nooter also has a volume of translation forthcoming from Princeton University Press entitled How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality. She is Professor in the Department of Classics and the Program in Theater and Performance Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.