Erin Moodie

Promoted to Associate Professor

School of Languages and Cultures – Classical Studies

emoodie@purdue.edu

Erin Moodie completed a Ph.D. in classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Purdue’s faculty in 2014.

Moodie specializes in Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and satire. Her research investigates two complementary areas of Greek and Latin literature. Her primary focus is ancient Greek and Roman comedy, specifically the work of the four playwrights whose plays have survived until the modern day: Aristophanes from 5th c. BCE Athens, Menander from 3rd c. BCE Athens, and Plautus and Terence from 2nd c. BCE Rome. Moodie employs modern research in sociology and social psychology to argue that Greek and Roman comedy should be understood as subversive, not supportive of the status quo as is often claimed.

She has published journal articles and book chapters in the Classical Journal, Classical World, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Pressthat has been praised by the top scholars in her field, has a second book completed and under review, and has a translation of a play along with an accompanying essay contracted and currently in press with the University of Wisconsin Press.

Moodie received the College of Liberal Arts’ Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2018, and she was the Indiana Classical Conference Teacher of the Year for the collegiate division in 2020. ​​She has served on a Ph.D. committee in comparative literature at Purdue and a master’s thesis committee in classics at Notre Dame.