COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Graduate Students

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Holly Axford
Holly Axford

ha2694@columbia.edu

Women in ancient literature; literary representations of ritual, magic, and witchcraft; feminist theory; contemporary classical reception; Greek tragedy; Herodotus and empire

Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie
Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie

ob2325@columbia.edu

Greek and Roman Literature. Seneca (Philosophy, Tragedies, Style, Life, etc.) Mythology, Mythography, Folklore and their reception.Reception studies in the Medieval and Renaissance periods.Classics in European and New World educational curriculum, especially the Cours Classique in French Canadian History of Education

Gia Chen
Gia Chen

gc2931@columbia.edu

Latin Literature, especially Neronian and Flavian poetry, and secular poetry in Late Antiquity; Book history and history of classical canon; Rhetoric and the concept of authority Reception; Manuscripts.

Jose Antonio Cancino Alfaro
Jose Antonio Cancino Alfaro

jc5502@columbia.edu

Encyclopedic Writing and Intellectual History. Neo-Latin Literature, especially in or about Latin America. Temporality and Politics in Neronian Literature.

Carina de Klerk
Carina de Klerk

cd2785@columbia.edu

Greek drama; Greek and Roman Epic; Lyric poetry; Epistolography; Performance studies; Representations of enslaved people in Greek Literature; Classical Reception; Mythology.

Geoffrey Harmsworth
Geoffrey Harmsworth

gh2511@columbia.edu

Greek and Roman History (esp. the Roman-era Polis); Post-Classical Greek Literature; Urban Politics and ‘History from Below’; Greek Epigraphy; Rhetoric and Oratory

Elizabeth Heintges
Elizabeth Heintges

emh2130@columbia.edu


Latin and Hellenistic Greek literature; Cultural geography and history of Hellenistic and Roman Sicily; Late Antique poetry; Numismatics and epigraphy.
(Photograph by Isaia Crosson)

Marissa Swan
Marissa Swan

mkh2161@columbia.edu

History of medicine, Late antiquity, The body, The intersection of philosophy, religion, and medicine, Literary theory, and Lactantius

Nicholas Koudounis
Nicholas Koudounis

nk2866@columbia.edu

Non-Greeks in Classical Athens; Interethnic Exchange in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods; Classical and Hellenistic Greek History; Greek and Latin Epigraphy.

Jazmín Novoa Lara
Jazmín Novoa Lara

jan2191@columbia.edu

Greek drama;
Greek and Roman philosophy;
Greek and Roman religions;
Ancient medicine, especially Galen;
Representations of the body in classical art;
Classical receptions in Latin America

Jose Romero Lotero
Jose Romero Lotero

jmr2337@columbia.edu

Augustan Poetry, Ovid, Narratology, Music and Myth, Musical Cultures in the Ancient World, Musicology and Classics, Classical Traditions in Latin-America

Joseph Petchauer
Joseph Petchauer

jp4617@columbia.edu

Reception studies; post-Classical Latin (particularly Renaissance and Neo-Latin); material textuality; the fable tradition; authorial identity and the literary canon

Valeria Spacciante
Valeria Spacciante

vs2716@columbia.edu


Imperial Greek literature; The Ancient Novel; Lucian of Samosata; Critical Ancient World Studies; Classical Receptions; Public Humanities; Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Embodiment and Phenomenology.

Brett L. Stine
Brett L. Stine

bls2187@columbia.edu

Archaic Greek poetry; Critical theory; Ancient literary criticism; Papyrology, manuscript studies, and book history.

Umberto Verdura
Umberto Verdura

uv2116@columbia.edu

Ancient Novel; Apuleius; Second Sophistic; Ancient Egypt; Egyptomania; Latin Paleography; Classical Reception; Comparative Literature.

Melody Wauke
Melody Wauke

maw2277@columbia.edu

Greek Tragedy, Epic poetry, Greek and Latin paleography & manuscript studies, Modern Greek language and literature.

Chuan Yue
Chuan Yue

cjy2127@columbia.edu

Archaic Greek poetry; Epic poetry; Greek tragedy and drama
Theory; Performance.

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