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On behalf of Ruth Scodel:

With great sadness we announce the untimely death of Kathryn Bosher, from metastatic lung cancer. Kathryn came to Michigan from the University of Toronto in 1998 and finished her PhD in 2006. She was an assistant professor at Northwestern and was going to start a new position at OSU in August 2013.

Kate’s great love was the theater, and the center of her scholarly work was the Greek theater in Sicily and Magna Graecia. In 2012 she published Theatre Outside Athens: drama in South Italy and Sicily, proceedings of a conference she organized at Northwestern. Nobody who saw the production of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen that she directed for the 2008 Feminism and Classics conference will forget it.

Nobody who had the good fortune to know her will forget her kindness, joy in life, and modesty. She could even seem diffident, but she had the drive to row in national competitions in single sculls, and her scholarly arguments were energetic as well as thoughtful. We will miss her, and we offer our deepest condolences to her husband Dale and her young son Ernest.