{"id":7331,"date":"2020-09-14T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7331"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:40:34","slug":"maya-chakravorty","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/maya-chakravorty\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Chakravorty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Her general research interests include Archaic and Imperial Latin Literature, Latin Prose, Roman Historiography, Cultural History, and Ancient Education.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/classics\/files\/2022\/10\/MSC-Academic-CV-20221.docx\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dissertation-in-Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Kinship, Republican Statesmen, and <span>Virtus<\/span> in Roman Imperial Literature<\/em><br \/>\n<span>First Reader: Uden<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference and Panel Presentations:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 2023 (Upcoming): \u201cTumens Atavis: Republican Kinship and Virtue in Silius Italicus\u2019 Punica 4\u201d, Society of Classical Studies, New Orleans LA.<\/p>\n<p>October 2022: \u201cAnachronistic Statesmen in Livy\u2019s Ab Urbe Condita 1\u201d, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Wilmington DE.<\/p>\n<p>August 2021: Panelist for the \u201cBoston University Graduate School Orientation for First-Time Teaching Fellows\u201d, Virtual.<\/p>\n<p>October 2020: \u201cCatonian Ideology in Horace\u2019s Odes 3.1 and 2\u201d, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Virtual.<\/p>\n<p>October 2019: \u201cThe Genius Populi Romani and the Safekeeping of Republican Rome\u201d, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Silver Spring MD.<\/p>\n<p>January 2019: \u201cMemory, Origins, and Fiction in Juvenal\u2019s Satire 3\u201d, Society of Classical Studies, San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>October 2018: \u201cMulta Veterum Praecepta: Vergil\u2019s Correction of Cato\u2019s De Agricultura\u201d, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>October 2017: \u201cThe Genius Populi Romani: A Study in Imperial Identity\u201d, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15498,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7331\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}