• Ancient Greek language
• Ancient Greek Comedy (Aristophanes)
• Ancient Greek Tragedy (Sophocles)
• Archaic Greek poetry (Homer & Hesiod)
• Classical Mythology
• Gender issues and rape in classical antiquity
• Reception of Classics in Literature and Art

Rosanna Lauriola has experience teaching Greek and Latin Languages from secondary school to undergraduate courses in Italy. Since August 2004, she has taught undergraduate courses in Classical Language and Literature (including Mythology, Civilization, Special Topics) at the University of Texas at San Antonio, St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, University of Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth University.  

Rosanna Lauriola is a Hellenist. Her research focuses on some authors of Greek Literature that represent her basic object of interest, namely Hesiod, Sophocles and Aristophanes. The basic topic of her research, independently from the author, is the lexicon and phraseology that poets use to carry on a specific poetic discourse.   Another interest and recent object of research pertains to Gender/Women Studies and Reception of Classics.

Books

• Lauriola, Rosanna, Aristofane spodaiogeloios: paideia e comicità. Con una lettura degli Acarnesi, (Aristophanes spoudaiogeloios: paideia and comics. With a new reading of the Acharnians) Giardini Editori, Pisa (Italy), 2010
• Lauriola, Rosanna 2008. Aristofane. Gli Acarnesi (Introduction, by Guido Paduano; translation and commentary by Rosanna Lauriola) BUR (Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli), 2008 Milano (Italy)
• Lauriola, Rosanna 2000. Sofocle. Edipo Re (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary edited by Rosanna Lauriola), Paravia-Mondadori, Torino 2000 (Italy)

Journals & Collections 

• Lauriola, Rosanna,  “Il prologo delle Rane e i bagagli di Santia (On the prologue of Aristophanes Frogs: Xantias and his baggages).” Prometheus 36, forthcoming 2010
• Lauriola, Rosanna, TEACHING RAPE TEXTS: A project. The rape of Lucretia: a long debated and revitalized episode from Classical Antiquity (APA Abstracts 2010)
• Lauriola, Rosanna, “Utopia in ancient Greece: an overview with a focus on Aristophanes.” Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2009 .  www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/viewArticle/7223
• Diafonie. Esercizio sul comico, Padova 2007, by A. Camerotto (ed.). Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009 (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-07-38.html)
• Lauriola, Rosanna, “Sophocles’ Aiax: hybris, foolishness and good sense. A comparison with   Antigone.”, Emerita. Revista de Llinguistica y Filologia Clasica, 72, 2: 217-229, 2008
• Lauriola, Rosanna 2008. Aristofane. Gli Acarnesi (Introduction, by Guido Paduano; translation and commentary by Rosanna Lauriola) BUR (Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli), 2008 Milano (Italy)
• Pasolini e Plauto, Roma 2007, by L. Gambarale. Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-08-46.html)
• Lauriola, Rosanna, “Wisdom and Madness in the Antigone. A further point in the interpretation of the Sophocles’ tragedy.” Hermes, 135(4): 389-405, 2007
• Aristofane e la poetica dell’ingiuria, Roma 2005, by Rossella Saetta Cottone. Bryn Mawr Classical Review” 2007 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-09-20.html)
• Lauriola, Rosanna, “Athena and the Paphlagonian. Reconsidering some passages from Aristophanes’ Knights.” Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies, 59(1): 75-94. 2006
• Lauriola, Rosanna, “Ieronimo dalla ‘scura-densa-folta capigliatura’": considerazioni su Aristoph. Ach. 388-390, (Ieronimous and his hair: observations on Arist.’ Ach. 388-390)” in G. Arrighetti – M. Tulli (eds.), Poesia Greca, Ricerche di Filologia Classica – V (Pisa - Italy), pp. 89-11, 2006
• Lauriola, Rosanna,  “Happiness in Ancient Greek world: overview on archaic and classical poetry, and  comparison with modern views.” Revista Espaço Acadêmico (April 2006) - www.espacoacademico.com.br/059/59esp_lauriola.htm

• Analysis of Aristophanes’ poetic techniques and lexicon specialized in denouncing the wrongdoings and deception of specific categories of men at the expense of the collectivity (focus on the category of the Sophists, with a detailed study of the comedy of Birds)
• Rape, Abduction, Sexual violence in Classical Antiquity
• Reception of selected classical themes in Literature, Art and Cinema

• Perfoming Sophocles’ Antigone
  University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 
  The purpose of the project is twofold: it aims at giving a ‘living’ experience of the ancient Greek drama to Classics students, and at spreading interest and knowledge of Classical Antiquity’s cultural products within the local community. The performance will be free and open to the general public.  Starting January 2010, Ending May 2010
  
• Children at the University: Classics meets with children
  University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
  The project consists of a class of Classical Mythology designed for children of Elementary School. Children will be engaged in a way that may enhance their creative skills by being invited to re-propose the myths they have learned through drawings. They will be also given the opportunity to enlarge their vocabulary through emphasizing some specific words that occur in the myths and that either constitute the roots of, or are able to explain the meaning of, related modern terms. A public, final exhibit of the children’s drawings will also give them the chance to share their acquired knowledge with the community.  Starting February 2010,  Ending May 2010