Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire Conference
Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma, and Suffering in the Roman Empire (Abstracts) Registration Register Here: https://forms.gle/QN2FKmPkGUC1eBPW6 Registration Deadline is Friday, March 1oth. The Boston University Classical Studies Department will be holding a conference entitled Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire this Spring. The conference will be held in person at Boston University on Thursday, […]
New Approaches to Classics: Penelope’s {A}typical Thinking
On Monday, January 30th from 3:30 to 5:30pm the Classical Studies department will beholding it next New Approaches to Classics lecture. This lecture will be presented by our very own Professor Laurie Hutcheson! She will be presenting: Penelope’s {A}typical Thinking. How does a Homeric woman make decisions? Does she fit the male heroic model? This […]
Alumnus Seth Holm helps launch Afghan Education Student Outreach Project
Dr. Seth Holm (PhD 2012) is currently teaching Latin and Ancient Greek (as well as advising the Model UN club) at the Hun School of Princeton, a college preparatory school in NJ. As of June 2022, Seth and Zahra, one of his students, decided to launch an English class for young women and girls in […]
Undergraduate Classics Association Teas in Fall 2022
The Undergraduate Classics Association (UCA) invites you to join their weekly teas in STH B22 (the School of Theology basement) on Wednesdays from 4 – 5:30pm, beginning on September 14th 2022.
Podcast: Interview with Visiting Assistant Professor Tim Clark
Incoming Visiting Assistant Professor Tim Clark sat down with us for a podcast interview on his research, including Roman perspectives on the Near East, the misappropriation of Classics by white supremacists, and more. Take a listen below, and to hear more from Professor Clark, register for one of his classes this Fall or Spring! […]
Interview with Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Tori Lee
Dr. Tori Lee, who will be joining Boston University’s Department of Classical Studies on September 1st, 2022, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and and an inaugural member of the Boston University Society of Fellows, sat down with Senior Program Coordinator Nat Gonzalez to discuss the role she will be stepping into, finishing her PhD, the ancient […]
Alumnus Ryan Pasco Named Publications and Undergraduate Program Coordinator at Harvard University’s Department of the Classics
Ryan Pasco graduated in Spring 2022 from Boston University’s department of Classical Studies. His research interests include imperial Greek and Latin literature, satire and epigram, freedom under tyranny, subelite perspectives on Roman literature, and digital humanities. His dissertation, titled The Shifting Meaning of the Saturnalia in Imperial Latin Literature from Domitian to Hadrian (81-138 CE), […]
Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companion to Plautus Menaechmi by Sophie Klein
Sophie Klein, who received her PhD from the Department of Classical Studies in 2013 and is now a Senior Lecturer of the Core Curriculum, has written and released a companion to Plautus’ Menaechmi, the ancient work that inspired such adaptations as The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, as part of the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy […]
Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey by Stephanie Nelson
We are excited to announce that Stephanie Nelson, Professor of Classical Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies here at our Department, has released a new book today, July 5th 2022, with the University Press of Florida, as part of the Florida James Joyce Series. Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey is a comparative […]
Alumni Stories: Dr. Vyvyane Loh tells us why “every medical student should have a foundation in the Classics”
We sat down with Dr. Vyvyane Loh (CAS ’89) to talk about the impact her time here at Boston University’s Department of Classical Studies had on her path. With a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Classical Languages and Literature, a Doctorate of Medicine, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Dr. Loh has […]