Graduate Student Papers

Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting, Needham, MA, March 2023

James Aglio “Men at Play”

Lauren Brown “Therapeutic Ecphrasis: Representations of War Trauma in Augustan Love Poetry”

Griffin Budde “Homer’s Periodicity and the Stimulus-driven Effects of Rhythm”

Allison Jodoin “Antigone and the Mother-Bird: Protection, Lamentation, and Marriage at Antigone 423–425”

Colin Lacey “Meeting Your Hero: Identifying Philostratus’ Vinedresser as the Epiphany of Protesilaus”

William Lewis “Dreams in the Labyrinth: Locus Horridus as an Expression of Trauma in Seneca’s Thyestes”

Joshua Paul “Parodies of Epicureanism on the Road to Brundisium (Horace, Satires 1.5)”

Jackie Reynolds “Rumpe iam Segnes Moras: Contextualizing Medea’s Moras”

Caroline Spurr “Obelisks Transformed: Imperialistic Appropriations of Egyptian Monuments”

University of Virginia Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, March 2023

Joseph R. Watkins “Undermining Autochthony: Ethnicity and Structure in Thucydides’ Sicilian Expedition”

Classical Association of the Middle, West, and South Annual Meeting, Provo, UT, April 2023

James Aglio “Aspectual Distinctions in the Homeric Past Tense”

The Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 2023

1) Budde, Griffin, “Hector’s Epithet koruthaiolos, Its Contextual Field, and Translation”

2) Capotos, Spiridon Iosef, “Penelope in Ogygia: the overturning of a formulaic
Theme”

3) Chakravorty, Maya “Tumens Atavis: Republican Kinship and Virtue in Silius
Italicus’ Punica 4”

4) Hirsh, Brayden, “Rome’s First Professores”

5) Kotiuga, Peter, “Prayer as a rhythm in Homer’s Iliad”

6) Watkins, Joseph R., “Peer-Pressure: Persuasion in the Embassy to Achilles”

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting

1) Kotiuga, Peter,“The Traditional Verbs for Divine Rescue in Homer’s Iliad”

Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2022

1) Kotiuga, Peter, “The Homeric Line to Caesar: Apollo’s Epiphany in Horace Sermones I.9”

2) Matz, Alicia,  “Political Diana in Vergil’s Aeneid”

Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting, Amherst, MA, April 2022

1) Budde, Griffin, “Interpreting The Flood of Horace Odes 1.2: Topography of the Etruscan Shore”

2) Kotiuga, Peter, “Elpis Trapped in Hesiod’s Myth of Pandora”

3) Watkins, Joseph R., “Getting to Know the Enemy: Livy’s Ethnographic Introduction of the Gauls”

Feminism & Classics 2022, Wake Forest University, May 19-22, 2022 (hybrid)

1) Matz, Alicia, “Gender Nonconformity and ‘Trans’ Narrative in Vergil’s Aeneid”

Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) 2021, November 11-13, 2021, Columbia University (Hybrid)

1) Matz, Alicia, “Bringing the Canon to the Periphery: Using Fan Fiction to Teach Latin”

Oxonmoot 2021, Oxford University, September 2-5, 2021 (hybrid)

1) Matz, Alicia, “Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?: Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration’  

2) Matz, Alicia, “Tolkien in Translation” panelist. 

Society of Classical Studies 2021 Annual Meeting, January 5-10, 2021 (Virtual)
3. Alicia Matz, “Re-Presenting Woman: Pandora in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”

4. Alicia Matz, “More than Brains in Jars: A Graduate Perspective on the Future of Classics Graduate Studies” in the “COVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 2021 (Virtual)

1) Alicia Matz, “Rethinking Student Engagement and Assessment in the COVID Classroom” Workshop Presider.

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 8-10,2020 (Virtual)

2) Maya Chakravorty, “Catonian Ideology in Horace’s Odes 3.1 and 2”

Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2020, January 2-5, 2020 (Washington DC)

1) Alicia Matz,“Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy”

2) Ian Nurmi, “Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy”

3) Ryan Pasco, “Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy”

4) Ryan Pasco, “Augustus On Holiday: Sinister Saturnalia in Suetonius’ Divus Augustus 98.1″

Classical Association of New England, July 2020 (via Zoom)

1) James Aglio, “The Poetry is in the Pity: Horace Carmina I, 24 and the Poetics of Grief”

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, March 2020 (Birmingham, AL)

1) Burmeister, Victoria, “The Out-of-the-Way Novels of Petronius and Lewis Carroll”

2)  Matz, Alicia, “From Octavian to Augustus: Numismatics and Augustan Propaganda”

3) Nurmi, Ian, “Queer Educators in Antiquity Studies”

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 2019 (Silver Spring, MD)

1) Peter Kotiuga, “The City Dionysia: A Festival of the Athenians, for the Athenians, by the Athenians”

2) Maya Chakravorty, “The Genius Populi Romani and the Safekeeping of Republican Rome”

Celebrating the Divine: Roman Festivals in Art, Religion, and Literature, August 30-31, 2019 (Charlottesville, VA)

1) James Aglio, “A Horse for All Seasons: new researches on the October Equus.”

Film and History Conference, University of Wisconsin—Madison, November 13-17, 2019 (Madison, WI)

1) Alicia Matz, “Fixed Points in Time: Doctor Who, the TARDIS, and Roman History”

University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Conference, January 31-February 1, 2020 (Boulder, CO)

1) Griffin Budde, “Landscape Engineering in Athens: Slope Reversal on the Pnyx”

Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy conference, Columbia University, February 15-16, 2020  (New York, NY)

1) Victoria Burmeister, Alicia Matz, Ian Nurmi, “Making Our Voices Heard – Fighting for Change in Classics” keynote panelist

Feminist, Queer, Trans… New Directions for Narrative conference, Newcastle University, April 16-18, 2020 (Tyne, England)

1) Alicia Matz,“Gender Nonconformity and ‘Trans’ Narrative in Vergil’s Aeneid”

Res Difficiles:  A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In the Ancient Greek and Roman World , May 15, 2020 (Fredericksburg, VA)

1) Victoria Burmeister, “Hestia: Graduate Student Self-Taught Pedagogy”

Feminism & Classics 2020, May 21-24, 2020 (Winston-Salem, NC)

1) Zara Amdur, “Plato’s Appropriation of Hesiodic Eros”

2) Victoria Burmeister, “‘A place of rage and power… and vengeance’: Dark Willow, Senecan Tragedy, and the Paradox of ‘Stoic’ Vengeance”

3) Alicia Matz,“Gender Nonconformity and ‘Trans’ Narrative in Vergil’s Aeneid”

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 4-6, 2018 (Philadelphia, PA)

1) Maya Chakravorty, “Multa Veterum Praecepta: Vergil’s Correction of Cato’s De Agricultura.”

Society for Classical Studies, January 3-6, 2019 (San Diego, CA)

2) Maya Chakravorty, “Memory, Origins, and Fiction in Juvenal’s Satire 3.”

3) Alicia Matz, “Deus nobis haec otia fecit: Illusions of Otium at the End of the Republic.”

4) Colin Pang, “Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod.”

Classics Association of New England, March 8-9, 2019 (Worcester, MA)

5) James Aglio, “Aestus Erat.”

6) Alicia Matz, “Pygmalion and Pandora in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”

7) Peter Kotiuga, “The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Hesiod’s Ideal Polis Discovered in Eleusis”

Boston University Classics Graduate Conference, March 23, 2019 (Boston, MA)

8) Alicia Matz, “Re-creating the Female Other: Pygmalion and Pandora in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”

University of Virginia’s Graduate Colloquium, March 30, 2019 (Charlottesville, VA)

9) William Bruckel, “Heed my Decree, People of Athens: Solon’s Elegy and Aeschylus’ Democratic Advocacy.”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 3-6, 2019 (Lincoln, Nebraska)

10) Victoria Burmeister, “Opening the Box: Narratives of Fantasy, Desire, and Marginalized Women in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 and Mulholland Drive”

11) Shannon Dubois, “Theocritean Hermaphroditus: Ovid’s Protean Allusions in Met. 4.285-388” 

12) Ian Nurmi,  “Scelus est Pietas: The Oresteia in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” 

Celtic Conference in Classics at the University of Coimbra, June 26-29, 2019 (Coimbra, Portugal)

13) Shannon Dubois, “Θέτιδος πάις: Thetis in the Words of Achilles,”

1) Peter Kotiuga, “Misidentified Europa: Identity Evropa and the Claim of European Homogeneity.”

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 2017, October 5-7, 2017 (New York, NY)

2) Maya Chakravorty, “The Genius Populi Romani: A Study in Imperial Identity.”

3) Daniel Libatique, “Communication as Power: The Correction of Sophocles’ Tereus in Aristophanes’ Birds.”

4) Alicia Matz, “divus dum vivus: Augustus’ Divinity as Seen Through His Coinage.”

Society for Classical Studies, January 4-7, 2018 (Boston, MA)

5) Evan Armacost, “Setting Sun: Light and Darkness in Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile.”

6) Victoria Burmeister, “Hector’s Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine.”

7) Shannon DuBois, “The Cupidity of Ascanius in Vergil and Vegio.”

8) Julie Levy, “Seneca’s Philosophical Thyestes.”

9) David West, “Plutarch and Cassius Dio on Cicero: Flawed Philosopher-Ruler or Unscrupulous Megalomaniac?”

Classical Association of the North East, March 16-17, 2018 (Kingston, RI)

10) Peter Kotiuga, “Horace’s Sermones I: A Little Guy’s Guide to Surviving the Big City.”

11) Daniel Libatique, “The Metrical Form of the Pervigilium Veneris.”

12) Ryan Pasco, “A Myth(ic) Poet: Aristophanes’ Self-Fashioning in Knights”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 11-14, 2018 (Albuquerque, NM)

13) William Bruckel, “The Furious Nobility: Aeschylus, Solon, and the Athenian Aristocracy.”

14) Daniel Driskill, “Aristophanes and the Athenian Archē, to the Peace of Nicias.”

15) Matthew Kelley, “Correcting Herodotus 1.56: The Histories’ Non-answer to the Pelasgian Question.”

16) Daniel Libatique, “Speech, Silence, and Gender in the Hermaphroditus Myth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4.274-388).”

17) Colin Pang, “Quintus of Smyrna and Hesiod.”

Society for Classical Studies, January 5-8, 2017 (Toronto, Ontario)

1) William Bruckel, “Euripides’ Hippolytus in Aeneid IV.”

2) David West, “Restoring Libertas: The Plebeian Class Advantage over the Patricians in Livy’s Account of the Second Decemvirate (AUC 3.36-55).”

Classical Association of New England, March 17-18, 2017 (Exeter, NH)

3) Daniel Libatique, “Facundum faciebat amor: The Absence of Tereus’ Direct Speech in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 6.”

McMaster University Graduate Classics Conference, March 18, 2017 (Hamilton, Ontario)

4) Ryan Pasco, “Etruscan-in-Exile: Power and Punishment in Aulus Caecina’s Written Self-Fashioning.”

OSU Graduate Student Conference, March 25, 2017 (Columbus, OH)

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 5-8, 2017 (Kitchener, Ontario)

7) Matthew Kelley, “The Arrogant-making Hand: Manus and Dextra in Hercules Furens.”

8) Daniel Libatique, “Speech, Silence, and Artistic Expression in the Pervigilium Veneris.”

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 8-10, 2015 (Wilmington, DE)

1) David West, “Civil Strife and the Oikos: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Aeschylus’ Eumenides.”
2) Daniel Libatique, “Tragic Epistolography and the Molding of Myth in Ovid’s Tristia 4.4”

Society for Classical Studies, January 6-9, 2016 (San Fransisco, CA)

3) David West, “Arguments for Political Participation in Cicero’s Pro Sestio and De Re Publica.”
4) Peter Blandino, “Musical Performance and Language in Euripides’ Trojan Women”

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, March 16-19, 2016 (Williamsburg, VA)

5) Daniel Libatique, “Borrowings and Code-Switches in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis” (Planned)

Invited Lectures

6) David West, “Cicero’s Call to the Young to Engage in Politics as a Way of Life.” Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, September 25, 2015.

Articles Published

7) Daniel Libatique, “A Narratological Investigation of Ovid’s Medea: Met. 7.1– 424.” Article here.

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, October 16, 2014 (Fredericksburg, VA)

1) Daniel Libatique, “The Königsrede as Temporal Microcosm: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus 216-275.”
2) Colin Pang, “Grief, Mythos, and the Poetics of Reunion in the Odyssey.”

Society for Classical Studies, January 9-11, 2015 (New Orleans, LA)

3) Dustin Dixon, “The Comic and the Tragic Birth of Heracles.”
4) David West, “The Rhetoric of Cicero’s Laudatio Sapientiae: de Legibus 1.58-62.”

Classical Association of New England, March 13, 2015 (Dedham, MA)

5) Daniel Libatique, “Cremutius Cordus and the Loss of Agency: Tacitus’ Annals 4.34-35.”
6) Michael Wheeler, “Dodging the Beam: Invective Markers in Catullus c. 4″
7) David West, “The Significance of Ino’s Veil for the Reunion of Odysseus with Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey”

Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest,  March 21, 2015 (Portland, OR)

8) David West, “Plato’s Theory of Forms Reconsidered in Cicero’s de Oratore, de Republica, and de Legibus.”
9) Michael Wheeler, “A Choliambic Cure: Traces of Hipponax in Catullus 44.”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South  Annual Meeting, March 28, 2015 (Boulder, CO)

10)Peter Blandino, “Euripides’ Helen: Object and Artificer.”
11) Colin Pang, “The Noble Dog: Homeric Images and Poetic Persuasion in Plato’s Repulblic.”

Faculty Conferences/Symposia

12) Dustin Dixon, “Comic Poets as Authorities on Myth” (John C. Rouman Symposium: Myth Criticism in the Ancient World).

Other Conferences

13) David West, “‘As if we were living in Plato’s Republic:’ Cicero’s Judgment on Cato’s Incompetent Statesmanship.” New England Political Science Association, April 25, 2015 (New Haven, CT)
14) Amanda Jarvis, “Women Producing Signs: Female Speech and Self-Representation in the Canonical Gospels.” LUCAS Graduate Conference, January 2015 (University of Leiden, Netherlands). Published here.

Graduate Student Conferences

15) Peter Blandino, “Music and Spectacle in Euripides’ Alcestis” (CUNY Graduate Conference March 14, 2015)
16) Daniel Libatique, “Cremutius Cordus and the Media of Memory: Tacitus Annals 4.34-35″ (University of British Columbia Graduate Conference, May 2, 2015).
17) Tong Liu, “The Erotic Door: Paraclausithyron in Horace’s Odes and Sima Xiangru’s Rhapsody of the Long Gate” (UCLA Graduate Conference: Bodies in Revolt: Erotics, Metaphor, and Materiality in the Ancient World).

Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting, March 8, 2014 (St. Anselm College)

1) Emily Austin, “Grief as Pothos: Understanding the Anger of Achilles.”
2) Laurie Hutcheson, “Thetis tells Achilles’ story: a personal history re-imagined.”
3) Amanda Jarvis, “Visual Perception and the Graspable Image in Ovid.”
4) Karen Mower, “Circe’s Understanding of Rape Victims in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, XIV.320-434.”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 5, 2014 (Waco, Texas)

5) David West, “De Legibus: Cicero as Scipio and the Problem of the Excluded Philosophic Statesman”

Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar, July 10, 2015 (New York, NY)

6) Daniel Libatique, “A Narratological Investigation of Ovid’s Medea: Met. 7.1-424.”

Graduate Student Conferences

7) Michael Wheeler, “What to do about Suffenus? Metrical Clues in Catullus c. 22″  (Brandeis University:“Pride and Prejudice: Difference and Distinction in the Ancient Mediterranean.”)
8) Daniel Libatique, “From Lead Role to Stage Body: The Disappearance of Tecmessa in Sophocles’ Ajax“ (Comparative Literature Graduate Conference)
9) Daniel Libatique, “Rumor, Speech, and the Fall of a Homeric Age in Sophocles’ Ajax” (Graduate Conference, Ut Fama Est: Rumor and Reputation in Antiquity)
10) Amanda Jarvis, “Nec me mea fallit imago: The Deceptive Image in Ovid and Vergil” (McMaster University)
11) Colin Pang, “Notions of Masculinity in Catullus and Eminem” (Scholars Day)