Herbert Alan Golder (born October 29, 1952) is an American academic, writer, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Classical Studies and Professor in Cinema & Media Studies 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, 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, as well as the Inaugural Scholarly Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies). He served as General Editor, along with William Arrowsmith, of The Greek Tragedy in New Translations, published by Oxford University Press. His own translations have been published and staged. He is currently translating the erotic fragments of Sappho.
He has also worked in film in different capacities, notably with Werner Herzog on ten films, features and documentaries, 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. 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. His current project is L, a feature film, which he has written and will direct.