CLASSICS - Key Persons

Adrienne Lerner

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Researcher, NBC Sports and NBCSN

Education: BA in Classical Studies, 2012 Adrienne Lerner's current focus is on Barclays Premier League coverage. She works closely with talent and producers to help prepare them for broadcasts. On matchdays she works in the control room, following breaking news, fact-checking scripts and graphics, and helping the producers, talent, graphics, etc. with any requests that arise.

Alex Nguyen

Education: I graduated from the University of California, Davis, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in Classics and Comparative Literature and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in the Spring of 2022. My honors thesis, "Telemachus Drowned: Filial Piety, Patriarchal Succession, and the Story of a Man, Interrupted," featured an analysis of the character of Telemachus in the Odyssey and other works, focusing on the criteria of attaining manhood in the heroic age and how Telemachus' unorthodox inherited legacy shifted these criteria to the detriment of his maturity. Research Interests: My research interests include exploring radical methods of translation, the Greek Heroic Age, Senecan tragedy, Vietnamese classical reception, and the study of Orientalism both in the ancient world and in the history of Classical studies. Outside of Classics, I am interested in journalism and Asian American studies. I began the Ph.D program in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania in Fall of 2022.

Alex Purves

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Associate Professor of Classics, UCLA

Alice Hu

al..@sas.upenn.edu

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Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Reed College

Education: Alice received her BA from Stanford University in Classics with Honors and History in 2010. She completed her PhD in Classical Studies at Penn in 2019. Alice is currently Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College. From 2018-2020, she was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Before that, she was Resident Instructor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (Centro) in Rome in 2015-2016. Research Interests: Her research focuses on questions of genre and intertextuality in Latin imperial epic, and on the literature of the Flavian period, particularly in discourse about survival in the literature produced after the Civil War of 69 CE. Alice is also interested in tragedy, particularly the interaction between tragedy and epic in Latin imperial poetry; trauma and PTSD in ancient literature; and textual criticism.

Amelia Bensch-Schaus

Education: As an undergraduate, I studied Classics at Princeton as well as at Cambridge, where I completed Tripos Part II during my junior year. After receiving my B.A. in 2013, I spent two years abroad teaching Greek, Latin, and English at the high school level. I entered Penn's PhD program in 2015, and spent 2018-2019 at the ASCSA.

Amy Lewis

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Visiting Scholar

Amy received her B.A. in Classics from University College London, her M.A. in Classics from Universiteit Leiden, and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She works on Greek Old Comedy and wrote her dissertation on the concept of "low comedy" in Aristophanes. She has given talks on Aristophanes' rivals Pherecrates and Phrynichus and is keen to integrate the study of comic fragments into the broader discourse about Old Comedy. Amy also has an interest in popular culture in ancient Rome and the relationship between Roman literature and the African continent. She has taught several classes on these topics. Amy is currently a Loeb Classical Library Postdoctoral Fellow working on an project entitled "Scholiastic Approaches to Aristophanes' Frogs". In this project, she analyses the networks of interpretative approaches to a single play in the scholia vetera and the Byzantine scholia of Tzetzes, Triclinius, and Thomas Magister.

Anne Duncan

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Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Bill Beck

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Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Indiana University

Boileau Marie-Claude

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Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies / Director, Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials ( CAAM ), Penn Museum

Marie-Claude specializes in archaeological science as applied to archaeological ceramics. She completed her PhD in Archaeology at Université Laval, with a focus on Early Bronze Age ceramics from northeastern Syria. Central to her research is the reconstruction of technological traditions, their development over time and across space, as a way to approach social identity. She uses an integrated methodology, combining multiple datasets - contextual, stylistic and analytical - to trace the potter's choice and action at every step of the production sequence. Her research and teaching interests expand to the East Mediterranean to explore networks of interaction. In the field and in the laboratory she has been involved in a number of archaeological projects in Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey and Southeast Asia. At Penn, she teaches undergraduate courses on ceramic analysis and a graduate course on the petrography of cultural materials.

Brian Credo

Brian's research focuses on the relationship between ancient Greek comedy and various institutions of expulsion such as scapegoat ritual and ostracism. Some of his related interests include ritual theory and speech act theory. Before coming to Penn, Brian completed a BA in Classics and Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Cam Grey

cg..@sas.upenn.edu

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Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Department of Classical
Undergraduate Chair

Caroline Waxler

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Digital Content Strategist and Writer
Independent Writer and Producer

Education: BA in Classical Studies, 1993 Caroline Waxler is an independent writer and producer for digital and analogue media. She also programs and produces innovative conferences in the field of communications.

Catherine Keane

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Associate Professor of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis

Cianna Jackson

Cianna completed her BA (summa cum laude, PBK) at Stony Brook University in European Studies and Art History with a minor in Anthropology in 2019. Her senior honors project, "Weaving, Women, and Wiles: A Comparison of Two Aristophanic Plays," which compares the Clouds and Lysistrata, focuses on Aristophanes' characterization of the ideal Athenian woman based on weaving as a craft and as a form of female speech. Cianna stayed at Stony Brook for a fifth year to complete her MA (with distinction) in an accelerated program in Art History and completed a thesis entitled "Ritual Irony and the Maiden: The Marriage-Sacrifice Metaphor in Classical Greek Vase Painting." Her thesis compares Classical Greek vase paintings and tragic poetry, arguing that marriage imagery subtly suggests virgin sacrifice in gestures which follow the tragic symbolic system of sacrifice. She completed her MA in 2020 and began her PhD at Penn the same year. She also twice received the Kress Foundation Fellowship Award to study Greek and Latin at the Latin-Greek Institute in New York, and has served as a Latin tutor for the past two years. Cianna's research interests continue to be in the vein of Greek poetry, Euripidean tragedy and various receptions of Greek tragedy, performance, Greek pottery, the comparison of image and text, tragic irony, and the interplay between gender, childhood, and ritual.

Cynthia Damon

cd..@sas.upenn.edu

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Professor of Classical Studies, Emerita

Dee Clayman

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Expert in Hellenistic
Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Education: PhD in Classical Studies, 1972 Dee Clayman is an expert in Hellenistic poetry. He books on that subject include Queen Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt (2014), Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into Poetry (2009), and Callimachus' Iambi, Mnemosyne Supplement 59 (1980), the last being a revised version of her Penn dissertation. In addition, she is the subject editor for Classics of Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://aboutobo.com/classics/) and General Editor of the Database of Classical Bibliography, which is now incorported with the Année Philologique online at www.Anneephilologique.com. Since 2012 she has been Vice-Président of the Société internationale pour bibliographie classique, and in 2010-2011 she was President of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies). Her many honors and awards include research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Barrington Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Florence J. Gould Foundation, The Institute for Mediterranean Studies, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, The Loeb Classical Library Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, The Lucile and David Packard Foundation, and The Seth Sprague Foundation. She has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, and Medal for Distinguished Service from the American Philological Association.

Edward E. Cohen

ec..@hepcollc.com

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Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
CEO and Chairman, Atlas Resources Partners GP, LLC
CEO and Chairman, Atlas Resources Partners GP, LLC / Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Emily Greenwood

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Professor

Emily Greenwood is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Born in the Cayman Islands to a Ugandan mother and British father, and educated in Malawi and the United Kingdom, Greenwood trained as a classicist at Cambridge University, where she earned BA, M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Classics. From 2000-2002 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before taking up a position as Lecturer in Greek literature at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (2002-2008). From July 2009 to June 2021, she was Associate Professor and then Professor of Classics at Yale University, and latterly the John M. Musser Professor of Classics. While at Yale, Greenwood served a three-year term as Chair of Yale's Classics department, and a three-year term on the executive committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate (2015-2018). She was elected Chair of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate in 2016-17. In 2021-22, she was Professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and began her current position at Harvard in July 2022. Greenwood is a scholar of ancient Greek literature and history, and the plural histories of use that make up the classical tradition of Greece and Rome. At the heart of her research and teaching are the questions, by whom and for whom were the so-called classics of ancient Greece and Rome written, by whom and for whom have they been interpreted, and in view of which histories? Greenwood's scholarship considers what these complex histories of use mean for our ethical responsibilities as students and scholars of Greek and Roman classical antiquity in the present. These questions inform her topic for The Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World, which will be on the topic "The Recovery of Loss: Ancient Greece and American Erasures". She is the author of some forty book chapters and journal articles, as well as two books: Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (2010), joint winner of the 2011 Runciman Award, and Thucydides and the Shaping of History (2006). She recently guest-edited the first volume of a special issue of the American Journal of Philology on "Diversifying Classical Philology" (AJP 143.2, Summer 2022). She has also co-edited two volumes, Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (co-edited with Barbara Graziosi), and Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (co-edited with Elizabeth Irwin). Her current book project is entitled Black Classicisms and the Expansion of the Western Classical Tradition and explores the critical difference that local and transnational black traditions of interpreting Greek and Roman classics make to existing conceptions of the classical tradition.

Emily Wilson

em..@sas.upenn.edu

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Professor of Classical Studies
Professor of Classical Studies / Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 201 Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - 6304

Emma Dyson

ed..@sas.upenn.edu

I am a fourth-year PhD student specializing in the history of Greek philosophy. My dissertation, on Greek biographies of philosophers, examines biography as a mode of philosophical communication. I am interested in the convergence between philosophy and literature, and I have a particular focus on Neoplatonism. I received my B.A. in English and Classics from the University of Southern California with a thesis on allegorical interpretation of Vergil in Servius, Boethius, and Fulgentius.

Eric Casey

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Associate Professor of Classics, Sweet Briar College
Professor

Professor Casey won Sweet Briar's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005-2006 and again in 2012-2013. This award is voted on by the entire student body each year. In January of 2008, he won the American Philological Association's award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level.

Gabrielle Roehr

gr..@sas.upenn.edu

Gabrielle received her B.A. in Classics and Art History from New York University in 2020. Her senior thesis, titled "The Archaic Present: Nostalgia and Ideology in the Age of Augustus," examined the intersection of art and politics in the creation and maintenance of ideology in Augustan Rome, with special attention paid to Vergil's Aeneid, Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, the Forum Augustum, and the Monumentum Ancyranum. Her research interests broadly lie in the topics of memory, identity construction in the ancient world, Augustan poetry, and, more recently, the topic of forgery and ways of talking about forgery in antiquity. She entered the PhD program in Classical Studies at Penn in 2020.

Imperial Latin

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Research Interests

Jacqueline N. Sadashige

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Lecturer, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania

James B. Pritchard

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Professor of Archaeology

James Ker

jk..@sas.upenn.edu

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Professor of Classical Studies Graduate Chair, Classical Studies

Jay Lucci

Education: M.A., Boston College, 2009 B.A., Boston College, 2005 Jay Lucci obtained a B.A. in History with a minor in Classics in 2005, and an M.A. in Latin in 2009, both from Boston College. That same year he entered the Penn post-Baccalaureate program in Classics, focusing primarily on the study of Greek language and literature. He entered the Penn Ph.D. program in 2010. His current research interests include Latin (particularly Tacitean) historiography, classical comic techniques as intentionally or unintentionally employed in other literary genres, epistolography in the ancient world, and Roman consciousness of Latin linguistic development. Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 201 Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304

Jennifer Ebbeler

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Associate Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin

Jeremy McInerney

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Professor of Classical Studies

John J. Mulhern

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Lecturer

John Marincola

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Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University

Education: BA in Classical Studies, 1979 John Marincola specializes in Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (1997), Greek Historians (2001), and (with Michael A. Flower) Herodotus: Histories Book IX (2002). He has edited A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (2007) and Oxford Readings in Greek and Roman Historiography (2010). He has co-edited (with Carolyn Dewald) The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (2006) and (with C. S. Kraus and C. B. R. Pelling) Ancient Historiography and its Contexts:Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman (2009). He has revised the Penguin editions of Herodotus' Histories (1996; further revised edition, 2003) and The Rise and Fall of Athens (forthcoming);and he has translated Xenophon's Hellenica and fragments of the Oxyrhynchus historian for The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenica (2009). He has written articles on many Greek and Roman historians and is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography. He is the current Book Review Editor of Classical Journal and co-editor (with John Moles) of Histos.

Jordan Carrick

Jordan received her BA in Greek and Roman Studies from Vassar College in 2018. Her senior undergraduate thesis, "Taking the Poet's Part: Sulpicia's Elegy," explored how Sulpicia's six shorter poems ([Tib] 3.13-18) use and complicate the gendered conventions of elegy. Her research interests include Roman elegy and comedy, poetics, and the representations and treatment of marginalized identities in both ancient texts and their modern reception. She entered the PhD program at Penn in 2019.

Joseph Farrell

jf..@sas.upenn.edu

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Professor of Classical Studies

Joy Connolly

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Associate Professor of Classics, NYU

Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics, their reception in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and America, and their ongoing relevance for contemporary democratic life. Her first book, The State of Speech (2007) placed the ability to communicate at the heart of Roman ideals of citizenship. Her second book, The Life of Roman Republicanism (forthcoming 2014) examines key themes and affects in Roman republican political thought: freedom, recognition, antagonism, self-knowledge, irony, and imagination. Her next project, Talk About Virtue (under contract in the Classical Inter/Faces series with Bloomsbury Press) spotlights key moments in the revival of ideals of Roman civic virtue in revolutionary thought and practice in the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Themes of special interest include nostalgia, violence, and extremism, and the thinkers studied range from Benjamin Constant to Hannah Arendt. Her reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Women's Review of Books, Bookforum, and The New York Times Book Review, and she has worked as a player/interpreter with the Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal in pieces mounted at the Marion Goodman Gallery and the Guggenheim Museum. Among her awards and honors are fellowships at Stanford University, the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, as well as NYU's Golden Dozen Teaching Award.

Julia Wilker

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Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Julie Nishimura-Jensen

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Lecturer
Department of Classical
Director of the Post - Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies

Kate Meng Brassel

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Visiting Assistant Professor

Katelyn Stoler

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Graduate Group Coordinator
Graduate Group Coordinator, Classical Studies and Ancient History / University of Pennsylvania

Ms. Stoler is responsible for admissions and student records in the Classical Studies and Ancient History graduate groups (along with those of several other graduate groups located in Cohen Hall).