BU Alum Wins Prestigious Award
We would like to congratulate Prof. Michele Valerie Ronnick (PhD alum, 1990; currently Professor at Wayne State University), for winning the Merita Award from the American Classical League! An innovator within Classical Studies, Michele Ronnick broke new ground in exploring the importance of Latin and Greek literature for American history and culture. She has undertaken […]
Spring 2021 Newsletter
Enjoy our Spring 2021 newsletter highlighting notable departmental achievements from this semester, including a lecture series analyzing Classics from a Black perspective, a conference discussing “difficult subjects” – res difficiles – in our field, a new writing tutoring program specifically for Classics students, and more! Read our newsletter here!
Dr. Fauci has a Classics Degree!
Spencer Alexander McDaniel, a student at Indiana University Bloomington, wrote a post highlighting Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appreciation of the Humanities, specifically Classics. Dr. Fauci, who received a BA in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross, often speaks about the importance of his humanities background in the medical field. “My entire training is steeped […]
New Course Spotlight: CL237
Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt In Spring 2021, Professor Jones will be teaching another of our new courses for next semester, ‘Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome’. The class plunges students into a field of current debate about race in the ancient world. Students will explore the transformation of racial identities over […]
Ambassador of Greece to the US and Consul General of Greece in Boston Guest Lecture in Modern Greek Course
Our Modern Greek Program participated for the second consecutive year in BU Global Programs’ International Education Week. On October 30, 2020 Her Excellence the Ambassador of Greece to the United States Mrs. Alexandra Papadopoulou and the Consul General of Greece in Boston Mr. Efstratios Efthymiou were guests of honor in the course CG350 “Narratives of Resistance from Greece: […]
Seth Schein
Friday, November 13, 2020 Seth Schein, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature from University of California Davis, led a discussion-based lecture on Zoom to about 25 classicists last Friday. The discussion focused on Schein’s commentary of Homer’s Iliad, specifically lines 1.188 to 1.253. This event was part of the lecture series on Myth & Religion in […]
New Course Spotlight: CG101
Photo above by Jorge Gaitis, from the 2014 Summer Study in Greece program. Get a taste of Greece! In Spring 2021, Classical Studies will be running a new course, CG 101 (Modern Greek Language, Culture, and Literature), which immerses students in a vibrant and exciting world culture. If you have ever been curious about Greece, […]
BU Alumnus, Steven Smith, wins 2020 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
Steven Smith, Professor of Comparative Literature at Hofstra University and alumnus of the PhD program at Boston University (2004), has won the Society of Classical Studies’ highest award for publication, the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. His winning title is Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire and Denial in the Age of Justinian (Cambridge University […]
Gorefest!
Friday, October 30, 2020 The Undergraduate Classics Association (UCA) and the Department of Classical Studies hosted the 5th annual Gorefest! – A reading of Greek and Roman tragedy, but this year it was held virtually! More than 60 professors and students gathered on Zoom to celebrate Halloween, and read tragic stories from The Odyssey, Metamorphoses, […]
Emily Greenwood
Monday, October 26, 2020 Emily Greenwood, a Professor of Classics and (by courtesy) of African American Studies at Yale University gave a lecture titled “Black Classical Philology: Writing back to a deadly metaphor in Aristotle’s Politics I.” This lecture was the second event in our 2020 lecture series, Black Classicism – Moving Forward, presented by […]