Ian Nurmi

Ian Nurmi is a fifth year PhD candidate in Classical Studies. He received a dual BA in Classical Languages and Classical History at UMass-Boston in 2014, and an MA in Classical Languages and Literature from the same in 2016. His dissertation, “The Voice of Grief: Loss and Lament in Ovid’s Heroides” explores the ability of poetry to address public grief in the wake of civil war.  His academic interests include Augustan poetry, art as political speech, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and queer receptions of antiquity. He is a co-founder of Hestia, a graduate student-led initiative dedicated to pedagogical training, and he is the graduate student liaison to the Lambda Classical Caucus.

Dissertation-in-Progress:

The Voice of Grief: Post-War Lament in Ovid’s Heroides
First Reader: Kronenberg

Recent Papers:

1. “Hestia BU Graduate Pedagogy” Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2020, January 2-5, 2020 (Washington DC)
2. “Queer Educators in Antiquity Studies” The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting 2020, March 25-28, 2020 (Birmingham, AL)
3. “Scelus est Pietas: The Oresteia in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”  Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 3-6, 2019 (Lincoln, Nebraska)