Schoinoplokaki Emmanuela
About:
Emmanuela (she/they pronouns) is a Ph.D. candidate and specializes in ancient Greek and Roman theater. Ηer dissertation investigates the issues of forced displacement, belongingness, and agency of marginalized protagonists of Attic drama. Her research explores the collective and individual tragic figure of the migrant other and their connections with both ancient and contemporary sociopolitical realities. Her research on contemporary forced migration using computational methods in Global South contexts, conducted in Mexico, Greece during research stays, and the UCSB Low-Resource Language Lab, is an additional joy for her.
Before attending UCSB, she received her undergraduate degree in modern and ancient Greek, and Latin Literature at the University of Crete, and an M.A. in ancient Greek and Latin Philology from the University of Heidelberg. Her master’s thesis is written on the presence of the Underworld in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. After her research stay at the University of Oxford, she began researching (post)colonial reworkings of ancient materials, particularly those in modern Greek and Hispanophone literature, incorporating performance and modern classical reception studies into her scholarship.
Emmanuela is the Argyropoulos Graduate Fellow of Hellenic Studies, who taught modern Greek at UCSB for the past five years, and she is a multiple award-winning Teaching Assistant. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduates in ancient and modern language courses, seminars on race and ethnicity, and interdisciplinary lab projects.
Emmanuela is also a social-justice scholar and educator who collaborates in global antiquity-related and public-facing projects such as The Odyssey Project and a Modern Greek Studies Association-funded podcast on diasporas.
Check out her/their personal website: https://eschoinoplokaki.mataroa.blog/
Publications:
Schoinoplokaki, Emmanouela, (2024). “Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women: Io’s ‘Daughters’ the Refugees,” in: Vukadinović, S. Boškov & A. Smirnov Brkić (eds.), Prometheus 021: From Agon to Exile. Migrations from Antiquity to the Present Days (vol. 2). Novi Sad, 21-34. https://digitalna.ff.uns.ac.rs/sadrzaj/2024/978-86-6065-838-0
Schoinoplokaki, Emmanouela, “Displaced Heroines: Refugeehood and Diaspora in Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women,” in: B. Battistin Sebastiani, Z. Guo & B. Zeno (eds.), (Im)Migrants and Democracies: Ancient and Modern. Isegoria Publishing. [forthcoming 2026]
Lamar, Annie K.; Schoinoplokaki, Emmanouela; Castle, Rick; Chappell, Carissa; Seet, Allene M.,2024, “Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions from the Nakba Archive”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BXPYUP, Harvard Dataverse, V2.
Lamar, Annie K.; Castle, Rick; Chappell, Carissa; Schoinoplokaki, Emmanouela; Seet, Allene M.; Shilo, Amit (2025). “Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement.” Submitted to The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2025),part of The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Abu Dhabi, UAE.2