Hanna M. Roisman

Before 1990, Roisman held a post at Cornell University.^[2] In 1990 Roisman and her husband (Yossi Roisman) joined Colby College, where they had been invited to lead the classics department.^[3] By 2008 she had been named the Francis F. Bartlett and K. Bartlett Professor of Classics.^[4]: xv She has held multiple fellowships, including a fellowship at the Centre for Hellenic Studies in 1985–6,^[5] the Tytus Fellowship in 2007–2008 at the University of Cincinnati, and a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.^[6][7] In 2012, she was appointed to the Arnold Bernhard Professorship in the Arts and Humanities, a post she held until her retirement.^[8] She continues to be associated as a Scholar in Residence with the American University.^[9]

Roisman is best known for her work on Greek literature, especially drama and epic. Her book Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1999) was praised for its novelty,^[10] and her works aimed at student audiences or for use in teaching have attracted particular positive interest,^[11] with Laura McClure describing Tragic Heroines (2021) as "an excellent addition not only to a stand-alone course on women in Greek tragedy... but also of service to a general course on women and gender in antiquity."^[12]

• Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy (1984);
• Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus (1999);
• Sophocles: Philoctetes (2005);
• Sophocles: Electra: Translation with Notes (2008/2017); and Sophocles' Electra: A Commentary (2020);
• Tragic Heroines (2021).