Helene P. Foley is Claire Tow Professor of Classics Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has served as President of the American Philological Association and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and served as Sather Classical lecturer in 2007-08. She has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Loeb Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study (at Princeton) fellowships as well as three teaching awards.
She is the author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (1985), The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (1994), Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (2001), Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (2012), Euripides: Hecuba (2015) and co-author with Elaine Fantham, Natalie Kampen, Sarah Pomeroy, and Alan Shapiro, of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text (1994), co-editor with Erin B. Mee, of Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage ( 2012), and co-editor with Ralph Rosen of Aristophanes and Politics (2020). She edited Reflections of Women in Antiquity (1982), co-edited Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007), and served as co-coordinator with Jean Howard of PMLA 129.4 (2014) special issue on Tragedy.