Literary representations of ritual and magic; Greek and Roman religion; the witch in Greek and Latin poetry; feminist theory; contemporary classical receptions
Greek and Roman Literature; Seneca (Philosophy, Tragedies, Styles, Life, etc.); Mythology, Mythography, Folklore, and their reception; Reception studies in the Medieval and Renaissance periods; Classics in European and New World educational curriculum
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.
Neronian literature, especially in issues of temporality and politics, and also in neo-Latin literature, with special emphasis on neo-Latin writings in/about Latin America.
Greek Literature in the Roman Empire; Greek Poetry from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity; Cultural History of Books and Readers from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Miscellanies and the Aesthetics of Poikilia and Varietas in Greek and Roman Literature; Animals in Greek and Roman Literature.
Latin and Hellenistic Greek literature; Cultural geography and history of Hellenistic and Roman Sicily; Late Antique poetry; Numismatics and epigraphy. (Photograph by Isaia Crosson)
Augustan Poetry, Ovid, Narratology, Music and Myth, Musical Cultures in the Ancient World, Musicology and Classics, Classical Traditions in Latin-America
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Ancient drama. Epic Performance studies. Representations of enslaved people in Greek Literature. Classical Reception.