Dorota Dutsch
Dorota Dutsch
Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Program Scholar for the Los Angeles Public Library
Dorota Dutsch, Associate Professor of Classics at University of California, Santa Barbara has an MA from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and a PhD (2000) from McGill University (Canada). She has taught at the Jagiellonian University, Université de Montréal, and worked as exchange scholar at the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). Professor Dutsch’s research focuses on social performance (comprising anything from comedy to funeral rites). She has published articles on Plautine jokes, vampire mice, pharmacology of seduction, lament, the language of gesture, and illustrations of Carolingian manuscripts. Her book, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices, has just been released from Oxford University Press.
In collaboration with colleagues and students from UCSB’s departments of Drama, Music, and Classics, Dorota has produced plays by Aristophanes and Euripides as well as short ‘comedies’ by the ninth-century saxon nun, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.
