Classical Studies | Medieval Studies

Rebecca Moorman, Assistant Professor

Rebecca Moorman specializes in Republican and early Imperial Latin literature, especially the aesthetics of emotion and multisensory experience in Latin poetry. She is particularly interested in how ancient philosophers, poets, and literary critics used disgust to create new pathways for knowledge and pleasure in Roman culture.

moorman@bu.edu

Stephanie Nelson, Professor of Classical Studies

Stephanie Nelson’s research interests include Greek and Roman epic, Hesiod, Greek comedy and tragedy, intertextuality, translation, and Classical reception, particularly James Joyce. She is currently working on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its reception.

nelson@bu.edu

Loren J Samons II, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University Chief Academic Advisor & Executive Director, The Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, The American College of Greece

Loren Samons specializes in the history of Greece in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., with particular interests in Athenian politics and imperialism. He also has interests in the later Roman empire, ancient warfare, and the classical tradition.

ljs@bu.edu

James Uden, Professor of Classical Studies, Department Chair

James Uden researches and writes about Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in later eras, especially the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

uden@bu.edu