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Emily Lord-Kambitsch, Ph.D, is Assistant Professor, Associate Chair, and Research Coordinator of the Mythological Studies Program. A scholar, poet-storyteller, and native of Santa Barbara, her lifelong exploration of classical mythology is rooted in the study of Greek and Latin language and literature. Emily arrived at Myth at Pacifica in 2020, after 8 years in the UK and a series of lectureships at UCL and UCSB. At Pacifica she teaches courses in Greco-Roman myth, memoir and self-writing, research approaches, and dissertation formulation. Emily has ceaseless curiosity about nature, religious experience, Greco-Roman myth, memory, and the transmission of story and artifacts, personal and ancestral, and is passionate about supporting students鈥� connection with the perennial stories that call to them through academic, artistic, and personal lenses.

After completing a BA in Classics at UCSB, Emily received a Master鈥檚 degree from the University of Oxford, where her thesis focused on the healing of grief in Roman stoicism, and where she worked as a research assistant for the Oxford Emotions Project, a cross-disciplinary study of definitions of emotions in ancient Greece. In 2016 Emily received her PhD in Classics at University College London (UCL). Her thesis examined emotions as an important mode for audience engagement with representations of antiquity in modern popular fiction, theatre, and cinema. The thesis has yielded articles in publications including the journal,聽, and the collections,聽聽(Brill, 2017) and聽Star Attractions:聽聽(University of Iowa Press, 2019).聽Her current research traces the relationship between memory, longing, and selfhood in the voices of women from Greek tragedy, evidenced in a recent聽. Forthcoming scholarship focuses on experiential approaches to classics pedagogy and using depth psychological approaches to classical myth as a lens to understand human-AI relationships (soon to be featured in the edited volume,聽聽, and she is also co-editing with colleague Devon Deimler a collection on C.G. Jung鈥檚 interpretations of classical mythology.

Emily is also passionate about creative and public engagement projects focusing on myth and storytelling. A prize-winning poet (Classical Association Poetry Competition 2024) and author of a poetic memoir,聽,. her commissioned writing was featured in the showcase, 鈥淲eaving Women鈥檚 Stories鈥�, at London鈥檚 Being Human Festival in 2018, where she continues to offer annual poetry writing workshops. She also regularly facilitates a series of Mythic Embodiment workshops in Santa Barbara, combining elements of intuitive movement and guided visualization to invite participants鈥� embodied engagement with mythical themes and characters. She performs regularly with Backbone Storytelling and Anima: Theatre of the Feminine Underground, two amazing community enrichment companies based in Santa Barbara.

In 2024 Emily was recognized as a member of the Top 40 Under 40 by the Central Coast Business Times.

See her personal website for more information:聽