rosalie Stoner
Assistant Professor of Classics
(212) 854-3902
mrs2374@columbia.edu
617D Hamilton Hall
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Research Interests
Ideals and practices of education in the Roman world
The Roman rhetorical tradition from the Republican and Imperial periods through Late Antiquity
Early Christian transformations of classical traditions
Competition and tension between rhetoric and philosophy
Consolation literature
Rosalie Stoner joined the Columbia Classics faculty in 2025 after several years teaching in Classics and Humanities at Yale University (2022-2025) and at the University of Chicago (2021-2022), where she obtained her PhD in Classical Languages and Literatures in 2021. Prior to that, she earned an AB in Classics with a certificate in Medieval Studies from Princeton University in 2015.
Her current book project, tentatively titled Making the Moral Orator, examines Quintilian’s portrayal of the “good man skilled in speaking” (vir bonus dicendi peritus) in the Institutio Oratoria as a response to the moral complexities of rhetorical education and practice.
Her scholarly interests include ideals and practices of education in the Roman world; the Roman rhetorical tradition from the Republican and Imperial periods through Late Antiquity; early Christian transformations of classical traditions; competition and tension between rhetoric and philosophy; and consolation literature. She currently teaches Latin and Literature Humanities in Columbia’s Core Curriculum.
Selected Publications
“The Difficult Defense of Cicero’s Goodness in Institutio oratoria 12.1” in Francesca Romana Berno and Giuseppe La Bua (eds.), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022: 83-99.
“Status Theory and Cicero's Defence of Teaching in Orator 140–8.” The Classical Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2023): 693–98.
