Not All Dead White Men by Donna Zuckerberg

Natalie Haynes agrees with Zuckerberg's ideological stance, arguing that 'ignoring these people is no longer the answer'. In a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, she argues that the sexism and racism found in classic texts should be studied and discussed rather than ignored or, as right-wing ideologues are doing, celebrated. She has also written for mainstream publications about the use of the classics by the alt-right movement. Īside from Eidolon, Zuckerberg's work has been published in numerous popular publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, Jezebel, The Establishment, and Avidly. Its authors are well-established classicists as well as new experts in the field. Zuckerberg is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal Eidolon, which publishes texts about classics that are not formal scholarship.

The classicist Natalie Haynes notes that Zuckerberg 'is a classicist with a strong Internet pedigree'. While completing her graduate studies, Zuckerberg wrote a food blog called Sugar Mountain Treats.

Her doctoral adviser was Professor Andrew Ford. The title of her doctoral thesis was The Oversubtle Maxim Chasers: Aristophanes, Euripides, and their Reciprocal Pursuit of Poetic Identity. in classics at Princeton University in 2014, specializing in the study of ancient tragedy. Īfter earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, Zuckerberg earned her Ph.D. Her siblings Mark Zuckerberg and Randi Zuckerberg both work in the technology sector. She says the family was tight-knit and the parents encouraged their children to develop whatever talents they had. One parent was a dentist and the other was a psychiatrist. Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1987 to a Jewish family. She is the sister of the Facebook's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. She was editor-in-chief of Eidolon, a classics journal, until its closure in 2020. She is author of the book Not All Dead White Men (2018), about the appropriation of classics by misogynist groups on the Internet. The Oversubtle Maxim Chasers: Aristophanes, Euripides, and their Reciprocal Pursuit of Poetic Identity (2014)ĭonna Zuckerberg is an American classicist, feminist, and writer.

Not All Dead White Men by Donna Zuckerberg