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Jordan Ardoin

Jordan Ardoin

jra2214@columbia.edu

Human-animal relationships in ancient life and literature; Greek tragedy and comedy; Natural philosophy and science of the ancient world; Ancient narratives of gender non-conformity; Translation of ancient texts for a modern audience

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

Deborah Chen

Deborah Chen

hc3459@columbia.edu

Archaic Greek Poetry; Hellenistic Poetry; Greek drama

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.

Shashank Dimri

Shashank Dimri

sd3960@columbia.edu

Roman imperialism; Late Antiquity; Ancient Athenian citizenship; Reception

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

Stev Talarman

Stev Talarman

s.talarman@columbia.edu

Cicero and Roman reception/transformations of Greek thought; Philosophy (esp. Platonism and Academic scepticism); (Post-) Classical rhetoric; Roman translational practices; The Second Sophistic and the Greek reception of Roman culture; Epic in late Antiquity; Intellectual history, classical receptions and intertextuality

Umberto Verdura

Umberto Verdura

uv2116@columbia.edu

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

(Photo Credits to Stacie Stine)

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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