Herbert Alan Golder (born October 29, 1952) is an American academic, writer, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Classical Studies [1] and Professor in Cinema & Media Studies [2] at Boston University, who specializes in Greek Drama, Myth Studies and Cinema. He is also Director and Editor-in-Chief of Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, [3] published by Boston University, for which he has won the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Modern Language Association, [4] as well as the Inaugural Scholarly Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies). [5] He served as General Editor, along with William Arrowsmith, of The Greek Tragedy in New Translations, published by Oxford University Press. [6] His own translations have been published and staged. [7] [8]
He has also worked in film in different capacities, notably with Werner Herzog on ten films, features and documentaries, [9] such as My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done, which he co-wrote and which was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. [10] Golder's own most recent film, Ballad of a Righteous Merchant, which he wrote, directed, and produced, garnered him over 30 international awards and many nominations. [11] His current project is L, a feature film, which he has written and will direct. [12]