Scodel's research focuses on Homer, Hesiod and Greek Tragedy, and is particularly significant in her innovative applications of theoretical approaches such as narrative theory[REF] to ancient literature.
In 1998 Scodel's article "Bardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer,"[REF] won the Gildersleeve Prize (American Journal of Philology), for work described as "an important contribution not only to the reading of Homer but also to narratological theory" [REF].