Worman was educated at
Barnard College, where she received her
BA; she later received her
PhD from
Princeton University, in 1994. Between 1994 and 1996 she taught at
Rutgers and
Yale. She is currently Professor of
Classics and
Comparative Literature at Barnard College, where she has taught since 1996. She has also held a visiting associate professorship at
Harvard University (2007-2008), and a visiting professorship at
Cornell University (2012). She was awarded an
Ann Whitney Olin Professorship in 2016. Worman's research interests include style and the body in performance in classical
Greek drama and its reception, as well as rhetoric and ancient and modern literary theory. Her work on landscape in her co-edited volume
Space, Place and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2014) was funded by a Loeb Fellowship and a Mellon-SIRT grant. She has also worked on feminist receptions of ancient Greece, with her 2018 work
Virginia Woolf’s Greek Tragedy. Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing described as "excellent... nuanced [and] radical." In 2022 her monograph
Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama won the PROSE Award for Classics. == Selected publications ==