Classical Studies PhD Student
Maya Chakravorty is a PhD candidate in the Classical Studies Department at Boston University. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2014 with High Distinction, having completed a B.A. (Hons.) in Classics and Classical Civilizations.
Her general research interests include Archaic and Imperial Latin Literature, Latin Prose, Roman Historiography, Cultural History, and Ancient Education.
She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the transmission of virtues and the conceptualization of Republican Roman heroes in the Imperial-era authors Silius Italicus, Juvenal, Plutarch, and Quintilian.
Dissertation-in-Progress:
Kinship, Republican Statesmen, and Virtus in Roman Imperial Literature
First Reader: Uden
Conference and Panel Presentations:
January 2023 (Upcoming): “Tumens Atavis: Republican Kinship and Virtue in Silius Italicus’ Punica 4”, Society of Classical Studies, New Orleans LA.
October 2022: “Anachronistic Statesmen in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita 1”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Wilmington DE.
August 2021: Panelist for the “Boston University Graduate School Orientation for First-Time Teaching Fellows”, Virtual.
October 2020: “Catonian Ideology in Horace’s Odes 3.1 and 2”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Virtual.
October 2019: “The Genius Populi Romani and the Safekeeping of Republican Rome”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Silver Spring MD.
January 2019: “Memory, Origins, and Fiction in Juvenal’s Satire 3”, Society of Classical Studies, San Diego.
October 2018: “Multa Veterum Praecepta: Vergil’s Correction of Cato’s De Agricultura”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Philadelphia.
October 2017: “The Genius Populi Romani: A Study in Imperial Identity”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, New York.