Sheila Murnaghan is Professor and Department Chair of Classical Studies at Penn. Sheila (A.B., Harvard, 1973; B.A., Cambridge, 1975; PhD, University of North Carolina, 1980) is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton 1987) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 2000). She works in the areas of Greek epic, tragedy, and historiography; gender in classical culture; and the classical tradition. Her current projects concern the tragic chorus, Herodotus, and twentieth century women writers and the classics.