Andrea Fishman joined the Classics faculty at Northwestern University as a lecturer in the Fall of 2008, having previously served as Faculty-Fellow in the Classics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include Greek drama and performance, women in antiquity, anthropology and classics, and female lament in the Greek tradition, this last topic being the subject of her in-progress book. Fishman is also a Middle Eastern percussionist and Sephardic singer.