Graduate Tutor
Ian Nurmi is a fifth year PhD candidate in Classical Studies. He received a dual BA in Classical Languages and Classical History at UMass-Boston in 2014, and an MA in Classical Languages and Literature from the same in 2016. His dissertation, “The Voice of Grief: Loss and Lament in Ovid’s Heroides” explores the ability of poetry to address public grief in the wake of civil war. His academic interests include Augustan poetry, art as political speech, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and queer receptions of antiquity. He is a co-founder of Hestia, a graduate student-led initiative dedicated to pedagogical training, and he is the graduate student liaison to the Lambda Classical Caucus.