Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Classics
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Classics (2018)
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M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, Classics (2011)
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B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English Literature (2009)
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B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Classics (2009)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research concerns how Latin and Greek speakers express personal identity, especially social class, ethnicity, and cultural affiliation, through individual idiom. The culture we reconstruct in Classics is founded on an aggregate of individuals speaking loudly or quietly or not at all, depending on circumstance, but language in use always flickers between personal impulse and societal demand—a negotiation that fascinates me, as it is universal, but never has the same result.
2021-22 Courses
- Advanced Latin: Informal, Vernacular, and Non-Elite Latin
CLASSICS 103L (Spr) - Making fun of History: Insults, Mockery and Abuse Language in Antiquity
CLASSICS 30N (Win) - Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate Teachers
CLASSICS 220 (Spr) - Through a broken lens? Reading fragments from the 2nd century
CLASSICS 314 (Win) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
CLASSICS 298 (Aut, Sum) - Directed Readings (Undergraduate)
CLASSICS 198 (Aut) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
CLASSICS 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research
CLASSICS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
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Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- Advanced Latin: Early Latin
CLASSICS 102L (Win) - Latin Core III: History of Literature
CLASSICS 203L (Spr) - Pedagogy Workshop for Language Teaching
CLASSICS 220 (Spr)
2019-20 Courses
- Advanced Latin: Comedy
CLASSICS 101L (Aut) - Intermediate Greek: Tragedy
CLASSICS 12G (Win) - Pedagogy Workshop for Language Teaching
CLASSICS 220 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Roman Comedy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Popular Genre
CLASSICS 362 (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- Beginning Greek
CLASSICS 1G (Aut) - Intermediate Latin: Martial & Pliny
CLASSICS 12L (Win) - Survey of Latin Literature: Imperial Latin
CLASSICS 203L (Spr)
- Advanced Latin: Early Latin
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Brandon Bark -
Master's Program Advisor
Skylar Widmann