Classical Studies PhD Student
Torie graduated from Skidmore College in 2014 with a double major in Classics and French. She continued to complete a certificate program in Classical Languages at University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Her studies at Boston University focus primarily on comparative literature, with a specific focus on the portrayal of magic and witchcraft in ancient authors. Torie loves reading about gnarly ancient drama and connecting weird things in the ancient world to weird things in the modern world. Co-organizer of Hestia BU. Often seen at the movies. Find her on Twitter: @mercury_witch.
Dissertation in Progress:
“Witches and Space in Ancient Roman Literature from Horace to Apuleius”
First Reader: Uden
Recent Papers:
- “Making Our Voices Heard – Fighting for Change in Classics” keynote panelist- Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy conference, Columbia University, February 15-16, 2020 (New York, NY)
- “The Out-of-the-Way Novels of Petronius and Lewis Carroll”- The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting 2020, March 25-28, 2020 (Birmingham, AL)
- “Hestia: Graduate Student Self-Taught Pedagogy”- Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In the Ancient Greek and Roman World , May 15, 2020 (Fredericksburg, VA)
- “‘A place of rage and power… and vengeance’: Dark Willow, Senecan Tragedy, and the Paradox of ‘Stoic’ Vengeance”- Feminism & Classics 2020, May 21-24, 2020 (Winston-Salem, NC)
- “Opening the Box: Narratives of Fantasy, Desire, and Marginalized Women in Theocritus’ Idyll 2 and Mulholland Drive”- Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting, April 3-6, 2019 (Lincoln, Nebraska)
- “Hector’s Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine.”- Society for Classical Studies, January 4-7, 2018 (Boston, MA)