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. […]
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!
BU Classics Alumnus on the Impact of the Loeb Classical Library
The CAS Core Curriculum recently published a blog post about BU Classical Studies alumnus John Talbot. Talbot wrote a feature for The New Criterion titled “ The Bright Ghosts of Antiquity” about the impact of Loeb Classical Library translations on the study of Greek and Latin. He explores the baffling nature of these translations which […]
BU Classics at the SCS!
BU Classics faculty, graduate students, and alumni participated in this year’s Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, which took place virtually due to COVID-19. The panels can be streamed if you register for the conference. Below is a schedule of talks and panels by BU faculty, graduate students, and alumni. The full program can be […]
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 […]