Classics Faculty

Research interests: history of ancient philosophy, especially Hellenistic and Roman philosophy; social epistemology and ethics; dialogue and epistolography; early modern and modern reception

Research interests: Roman and Late Antique Egypt; ancient economies with a focus on trade, taxation, and production; numismatics; papyrology; archaeology

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Research interests: ancient Greek prose literature, Greek historiography, classical reception studies, black studies, postcolonial literature and theory

Research interests: Latin poetry, the history of rhetoric and ancient literary criticism, the history of classical scholarship and classical pedagogy

Research interests: Mediterranean archaeology, especially Roman; archaeological theory and methods; urbanism and urban transformation; urban social geography; city of Rome; ancient residential spaces; the longue durée; early Christianity; women and gender...

Research interests: Latin historiography; historical epitome; Livy; Florus; The Livian Periochae; Latin prose; literary culture of the Roman Republic and its legacy under the Principate; literary fragments and theories of fragmentation; influence of...

Research interests: Byzantine literature, especially rhetoric and epistolography; sociology of literature; textual criticism and editorial theory

For graduate program inquiries, please email classicsDGS@fas.harvard.edu.

Research interests: Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; history and culture of the early Empire; arena spectacles; Roman punishment; Latin epigraphy; Roman mosaics; reception of the Classics in southern Africa
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Research interests: Medieval literature, especially narrative and Latin; education (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic), poetics, and literary criticism and theory in the Middle Ages; folktales and popular culture in medieval sources, especially Latin...

Research interests: archaic and classical Greek literature, especially drama (tragedy, comedy, satyr play); ancient Greek music, dance, and performance culture; generic interactions; materiality and affect; reception studies.

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