Shashank Dimri

Graduate Student

sd3960@columbia.edu

Interests

• Roman imperialism

• Late Antiquity

• Ancient Athenian citizenship

• Reception

Shashank is a first-year PhD student in the Classics Department. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies and English Literature at Purdue University (2021), where he wrote a thesis on critical moments of allusive ekphrasis in Francisco Javier Alegre’s neo-Latin epic, Alexandrias. Before coming to Columbia, he received his M.A. in Classics from Rutgers University (2025).

His primary research interests lie in representations of Roman imperialism—both within and beyond the temporal and spatial limits of the Roman Empire—and in exploring the depiction of metics and Athenian citizenship anxieties in the Platonic corpus. Beyond these, he is also more broadly interested in invective in Greek and Roman Republican rhetoric, metatheatricality in Greek tragedy, and Classical reception in video games and music.