Joseph Petchauer

Graduate Student

jp4617@columbia.edu

Interests

• Reception studies

• Post-Classical Latin (particularly Renaissance and Neo-Latin)

• Material textuality

• The fable tradition; authorial identity; and the literary canon

  Joseph Petchauer is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Classics Department. They hold a BA in Latin and history from Swarthmore College, where they graduated with highest honors.

  During their time there, they developed an abiding interest in the reception and use of ancient languages since the early modern period, completing an undergraduate thesis on the obscure yet revealing body of Neo-Latin poetry produced during Italy’s ventennio fascista. Likewise, their work on ancient authors and texts often centers on issues of canonicity and marginality, with a particular emphasis on the fable and other storytelling traditions, and explores their intertexts with more well-established literature.
   
  Outside of Classics, Joseph loves hanging out with their cats Vera and Fifi, DJing tech-house music, doing the daily crossword, and going to midnight movies at IFC.