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1701 North State Street Jackson, MS 39210-0001 (800)352-1050 (601)974-1000
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Catherine Ruggiero Freis, an Emerita Professor of Classical Studies, has taught at Millsaps College since 1975. She received a B.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and an M.A. and Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include epic, myth, classical art, tragedy, ritual dance drama in East Asia, and the American musical theater. Co-author of Ancient Greek Alive, published by the University of North Carolina Press, and also a book (written with Drs. Richard Freis and Greg Miller) about George Herbert, the 16th century English metaphysical poet, and his collection of Greek and Latin poems entitled Sacrum Memoriae Matris, to be published by the George Herbert Journal.
Dr. Freis has taught courses in Latin and Greek, as well as courses in English focusing on classical drama, art, epic, the patterns of myth and the American musical theater. Her three previous Great Topics Seminars were Greek Tragedy and the Community (which included a tour of Greece), Classical Epic and Film, and Tradition and Originality, Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses. Her teaching awards include the prestigious American Philological Association Award for the Excellence in the Teaching of Classics, the Millsaps Distinguished Professor Award, and the Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teaching Award.
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