Classical Studies PhD Student
Shannon DuBois is a PhD candidate in BU’s Classics program, who graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Classics and English from Skidmore College (2013). Her primary focus is on Latin literature and culture from the late republic through early empire, but she also enjoys Greek poetry (in particular Homer, Euripides, and Hellenistic epyllion). Her research interests include intertextuality, gender and (a)sexuality studies, narratology, and intersectional identity, and her teaching interests include myth in translation, Latin, and Roman history and daily life.
Dissertation in Progress:
Asexuality, the Invisible Interpretation: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Behavior in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
First Reader: Kronenberg
Recent Papers:
- “Theocritean Hermaphroditus: Ovid’s Protean Allusions in Met. 4.285-388” – Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 3-6, 2019 (Lincoln, Nebraska)
- “Θέτιδος πάις: Thetis in the Words of Achilles,”- Celtic Conference in Classics at the University of Coimbra, June 26-29, 2019 (Coimbra, Portugal)
- “The Cupidity of Ascanius in Vergil and Vegio.”- Society for Classical Studies, January 4-7, 2018 (Boston, MA)
- “Achilles and the Feminine: Achilles and Andromache as Tragic Foils.”- UVA 2017 Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, April 1, 2017 (Charlottesville, VA)