Giving Day Highlight: CL313
CL313 Rejoyce: The Odyssey and Ulysses, taught by Professor Stephanie Nelson, examines James Joyce’s Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. Students explore the relation of oral and book cultures and other works referenced by Joyce, including the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. Give to Classical Studies here!
Giving Day Highlight: CL200
CL200, taught in fall 2021 by Professors Uden and Čulík-Baird, will trace the history of adaptations and allusions to antiquity in Black writers from the 18th century to today, in a wide range of genres: poetry, essays, travel writing, novels, drama, and film. African American writers from Phyllis Wheatley to Rita Dove have explored, […]
Giving Day Highlight: Plautus Production
The Department of Classical Studies and the CAS Core Curriculum held an utterly ridiculous evening of theater on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The students of Roman Comedy adapted Plautus’ Menaechmi or “The Brothers Menaechmus,” a tale of identical twin brothers separated in childhood and reunited after complicated misadventures of mistaken identity. The play was performed by a […]
Giving Day Highlight: Res Difficiles
On March 20th, 2021, Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) and Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington) held the second annual Res Difficiles conference, where panelists and participants gathered to discuss problems that face researchers and teachers of the ancient Mediterranean at all levels. In this conference series, we discuss “difficult subjects” – res difficiles – of […]
Giving Day Highlight: New Classics Writing Program
We are excited to announce a new classics-specific writing tutoring program, developed in partnership with the CAS Writing Program. Two majors in the Department, Hallie Baggaley ’22 (Latin) and Kaly Glavas ’23 (Classical Civilization, Philosophy), assist students enrolled in classics courses at every stage of the writing process. Give to Classical Studies here!
Giving Day Highlight: Black Classicism Moving Forward
“Black Classicism – Moving Forward” is a new lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the CAS Core Curriculum, with the goal of engaging and critiquing the ancient world from a distinctly Black perspective. Presenters include: Professor Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University, “’Her brown hands bore me alabaster smooth’: Sculpting Cleopatra […]
Giving Day Highlight: New Book Published by Prof. Uden
In September 2020, Prof. Uden published his book Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 with Oxford University Press. The project is in the spirit of many other research projects from the BU Classical Studies department, focusing in broad humanistic terms on the Classical Tradition and the afterlife of ancient works in art, poetry, novels […]
Giving Day Highlight: CL237
CL237 Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome, taught by Dr. Brandon Jones, dives headfirst into the ongoing conversation around race in the ancient world. Students explore the transformations of racial identities over time, as well as the influence of classical ideas on modern cultures, particularly in the United States. Prof. Jones designed the […]
Giving Day Highlight: Graduate Conference 2021
The 13th Annual Boston University Graduate Conference in Classical Studies (4/10/21) will focus on “A Traveller in an Antique Land: Travel and Traveling in the Ancient World.” Professor William E. Mierse (University of Vermont) and Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) are the keynote speakers. Current doctoral students James Aglio, Griffin Budde, and Philip Levine […]
Giving Day 2021
Today is Giving Day! We hope that amid this trying year, Giving Day will be an opportunity to celebrate our community! We will be highlighting some exciting work from our department on our website throughout the day. Feel free to follow along and share any posts. Our goal for Giving Day 2021 is 150 participants. […]