Graduate Students
Amber Ace
Research Interests:
Plato, Epicureanism (and Hellenistic philosophy more generally), Lucretius, gender and sexuality, ethics, animal studies
Cohort Year:
2015
Sophia Alkhoury
Research Interests:
Ancient Greek and Roman magic; Latin poetry; satire; Senecan tragedy; gladiators in literature; observation and performance in literature
Cohort Year:
2020
Arshy Azizi
Research Interests:
Homer, epic, oral-formulaic composition; the manuscript tradition, textual transmission; Alexandrian scholarship; Greek intellectual history.
Cohort Year:
2020
Kodie Bastian
Research Interests:
Historiography and fictional narratives; Greek conceptions of the world; generic boundaries and requirements; philology; Armenian reception of the classical tradition.
Cohort Year:
2022
Laura R. Bevilacqua
Research Interests:
Anthropology and the Classics; Greek and Roman religions; Personifications; Cultural representations; Mythology; Reception Studies
Cohort Year:
2018
David Delbar
Research Interests:
Homer; Classical Tradition; Gender and Queer Theory
Cohort Year:
2018
Kaicheng Fang
Research Interests:
Roman political thought, Roman law, Ancient political philosophy, History of political thought, the reception of the Classical philosophical tradition.
Cohort Year:
2020
Christina Filippaki
Research Interests:
Greek Tragedy; Ancient Religion and Mythology; Homer
Cohort Year:
2018
Eduardo García-Molina
Research Interests:
Seleukid imperial administration and ideology; Hellenistic numismatics and epigraphy; Sexuality and ethnicity in the historiography of Eastern polities; Comparative study of imperialism and empires; Hispanic reception of Classics in the 19th and 20th cen.
Cohort Year:
2018
Julia Irons
Research Interests:
ancient Mediterranean myth and religion; the cultural interface between Greece and the Near East; history and literature of Archaic Greece; music and performance; historiography; Thrace
Cohort Year:
2020
Nathan Katkin
Research Interests:
Historiography of Rome in Latin and Greek; ancient ideas about government; ancient ideas about the past; prose style; Sanskrit narrative literature
Cohort Year:
2020
Eizabeth McNamara
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy, especially Euripides; Senecan tragedy; theatre and performance; reception of Greek poetry in English Modernist literature
Cohort Year:
2022
Caitlin Miller
Research Interests:
Archaic and Classical Greek literature, political theory, historiography, gender and sexuality, 19th- and 20th-century Classical reception.
Cohort Year:
2017
M.A.D. Moore
Research Interests:
Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and Boethius
Cohort Year:
2015
David Orsbon
Research Interests:
Allegory and allegoresis; concepts of nature; the reception of the Classical literary and philosophical tradition; the intersection of science, philosophy, and literary criticism
Rik Peters
Research Interests:
Ancient (Hellenistic) Philosophy, Intellectual History. Writing a dissertation on wonder (θαῦμα) and its relation to philosophy in Greco-Roman thought.
Cohort Year:
2016
Rebecca Posner-Hess
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy and epic, theatrical costume and staging, embodiment, materiality, metaphor, and historical memory
Cohort Year:
2021
Daniel Ruprecht
Research Interests:
History of emotions and their poetic representations; literary translation; reception; performance; pedagogy; Renaissance classicisms.
Cohort Year:
2022
Madelaine Thompson
Research Interests:
Latin literature, comedy, satire, the application of cognitive science and theory to classics
Cohort Year:
2018
Benjamin Yates
Research Interests:
The intersection of poetry and philosophy; embodiment; digital humanities; grammar and translation.
Cohort Year:
2019
Chenxi Zhang
Research Interests:
Narratives and poetics; Greek literary history; reflection on philosophical themes in literature
Cohort Year:
2022