{"id":7349,"date":"2020-09-14T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&p=7349"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:41:04","slug":"alicia-matz","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/alicia-matz\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Matz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Alicia Matz began her PhD career at Boston University in the fall of 2017. She earned her B.A. in Classics in 2015 from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and her M.A. in Classics from Rutgers University in 2017. Her research interests include Augustan literature, politics, and material culture, and reception, especially in science fiction and fantasy literature. She is currently working on a dissertation titled \u201cDiana in Augustan Poetry and Culture.\u201d In her free time she runs the\u00a0<\/span>@LOTRinLatin<\/a>\u00a0twitter, where she is translating Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings (slowly) into Latin, as well as\u00a0<\/span>@IodulaDicit<\/a>\u00a0where she tweets as Baby Yoda in Latin. She also helps admin\u00a0<\/span>@CripAntiquity<\/a>. Her main twitter is\u00a0<\/span>@duxfeminafacti9<\/a>\u00a0and her academic website can be found at\u00a0<\/span>aliciamatz.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dissertation-in-Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana in Augustan Literature and Culture
\n<\/em>First Reader: Kronenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cEchoes of Ovid\u2019s Diana\/Actaeon Myth in Rape Revenge Narratives.\u201d AIMS Annual Meeting, 2022 (Virtual)<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cIpsa sua Dido concidit usa manu<\/i>: Vergil, Ovid, and Dido\u2019s Agency in Three Modern Retellings.\u201d 2022 Vergilian Society Symposium Cumanum, June 2022, (Cumae, Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u201cGender Nonconformity and \u2018Trans\u2019 Narrative in Vergil\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Aeneid<\/i>\u201d at Feminism & Classics 2022 – Wake Forest University, May 2022 (Winston-Salem, NC)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u201cPolitical Diana in Vergil\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Aeneid<\/i>.\u201d Vergilian Society panel \u2018Vergil and Authoritarianism\u2019 – SCS 2022 Annual Meeting, January 2022 (San Francisco, CA)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. \u201cBringing the Canon to the Periphery: Using Fan Fiction to Teach Latin\u201d – AMPRAW 2021, Columbia University, November 2021 (Hybrid)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. \u201c<\/span>Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?:<\/i>\u00a0Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration\u2019 – Oxonmoot 2021, Oxford University (Hybrid)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. \u201cTolkien in Translation\u201d panelist – Oxonmoot 2021, Oxford University, September 2021 (hybrid)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. \u201cRethinking Student Engagement and Assessment in the COVID Classroom\u201d Workshop Presider – CAMWS 2021 Annual Meeting, April 2021 (Virtual)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. \u201cRe-Presenting Woman: Pandora in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses\u201d – Society of Classical Studies 2021 Annual Meeting, January 5-10, 2021 (Virtual)<\/li>\n
  10. “More than Brains in Jars: A Graduate Perspective on the Future of Classics Graduate Studies” in the \u201cCOVID-19 and the Future of Classics Graduate Study\u201d – Society of Classical Studies 2021 Annual Meeting, January 5-10, 2021 (Virtual)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. \u201cFixed Points in Time:\u00a0Doctor Who<\/i>, the TARDIS, and Roman History\u201d- Film and History Conference, University of Wisconsin\u2014Madison, November 13-17, 2019 (Madison, WI)<\/li>\n
  12. \u201cHestia BU Graduate Pedagogy\u201d- Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2020, January 2-5, 2020 (Washington DC)<\/li>\n
  13. \u201cMaking Our Voices Heard \u2013 Fighting for Change in Classics\u201d keynote panelist- Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy conference, Columbia University, February 15-16, 2020\u00a0 (New York, NY)<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cFrom Octavian to Augustus: Numismatics and Augustan Propaganda\u201d- The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting 2020, March 25-28, 2020 (Birmingham, AL)<\/li>\n
  15. \u201cGender Nonconformity and \u2018Trans\u2019 Narrative in Vergil\u2019s\u00a0Aeneid<\/i>\u201d-\u00a0Feminist, Queer, Trans\u2026 New Directions for Narrative conference, Newcastle University, April 16-18, 2020 (Tyne, England)<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cGender Nonconformity and \u2018Trans\u2019 Narrative in Vergil\u2019s\u00a0Aeneid<\/i>\u201d- Feminism & Classics 2020, May 21-24, 2020 (Winston-Salem, NC)<\/li>\n
  17. \u201cDeus nobis haec otia fecit<\/em>: Illusions of\u00a0Otium<\/em>\u00a0at the End of the Republic.\u201d- Society for Classical Studies, January 3-6, 2019 (San Diego, CA)<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. \u201cPygmalion and Pandora in Ovid\u2019s\u00a0Metamorphoses\u201d- Classics Association of New England, March 8-9, 2019 (Worcester, MA)<\/i><\/li>\n
  19. \u201c<\/em><\/span>Re-creating the Female Other<\/em>:\u00a0Pygmalion and Pandora in Ovid\u2019s\u00a0Metamorphoses<\/i>\u201d- Boston University Classics Graduate Conference, March 23, 2019 (Boston, MA)<\/li>\n
  20. \u201cdivus dum vivus<\/i>: Augustus\u2019 Divinity as Seen Through His Coinage.\u201d- Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 2017, October 5-7, 2017 (New York, NY)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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