Rate My Professor Hannah Sorscher

Sorscher's research focuses on classical philology and social history, particularly family relationships and women’s lived experiences in the ancient Mediterranean world, Latin poetry including Roman comedy, and the consequences of second-phase warfare for women and children in Greek and Latin literature. She is currently completing a monograph on families of choice in Roman comedy, exploring publicly staged relationships that challenge traditional patriarchal structures, as performed by playwrights Plautus and Terence. Her key publications include “Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” in Classical Philology (2022) and “Astyanax’s Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad” in The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean (2024). Forthcoming works encompass translations and introductory essays for Menander’s plays Aspis, Samia, Perikeiromene, and Epitrepontes in the University of Wisconsin Press series on Greek and Roman comedy. Sorscher has received awards such as the American Association of University Women Short-Term Research Publication Grant (2022–2023), the Epps Prize in Greek Studies (2020), and honorable mention for the Women’s Classical Caucus Best Pre-Ph.D. Paper Presentation Award (2020). She has delivered numerous presentations at conferences including the Society for Classical Studies annual meetings and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.