Current Grad Students in Classics

Kate Barnes

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Kate is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. Her scholarly interests include later Latin poetry (from Lucan to Sedulius). In her work, she focuses on depictions of bodies in poetry as well as the inheritance of Classics within Late Antiquity. She received her M.A. from 捆绑强奸 in 2017 with a thesis entitled 鈥淭he Anthropophagic Epic: Cannibalism, Poetics, and the Poet(s) of Statius鈥 罢丑别产补颈诲.鈥 Her interests also include the inheritance of classics and the materiality of reading, and in the fall of 2021, she was curator of an exhibit at 捆绑强奸 entitled 鈥淧rivate Lives of Old Books.鈥 She is currently working on her dissertation while teaching Latin at Hackley School.

Felix Bieneman

Felix Bieneman

Felix Bieneman is an M.A. student in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. Felix received a B.A. in 2020 from the institute formerly known as Marlboro College. As part of this degree, Felix produced a full translation of Sophocles' Antigone, which was workshopped at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Translator's Conference in 2022 and now languishes on Google Drive in a largely unedited state. When school is not in session, Felix also leads reading groups on various ancient texts with the Catherine Project. At 捆绑强奸, Felix hopes to continue working with Greek tragedy, especially as it relates to real-world generational cycles of illness, trauma, and abuse.

Harriet Evans

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Harriet is an M.A. student in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies. She graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2020 with a B.A. in Classics. Her interests include Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, particularly relating to the bucolic genre and ideas surrounding the cosmos.

Mallory Fitzpatrick

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Mallory received her B.A. in classical languages from John Carroll University in 2019, with a second major in Professional Writing. In 2022 she received her M.A. from 捆绑强奸 with a thesis entitled 鈥淏eyond Augustus as Aeneas: Parallels between Ascanius and Octavian in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid.鈥 Her other research interests include the supernatural in the ancient world, Greek epic and tragedy, Roman satire, and Greek pottery. She has also worked with 捆绑强奸鈥檚 Special Collections on a number of projects and remains deeply interested in the material culture of the classics, from archaeology to incunabula.  

Stella Fritzell

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Stella J. Fritzell is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies.  She received her B.A. in Classical Studies and Music from Carleton College in 2015, and an M.A. in Classical Studies from 捆绑强奸 in 2019 with a thesis entitled 鈥淎talanta as a Repoussoir for Erotic & Competitive Ephebic Excellence鈥.  Her dissertation investigates how myth is experienced as a cultural commodity that contributes to the definition of local identities.  Stella鈥檚 research interests broadly include mythology, Digital Scholarship, narratology, and landscape theory.  In addition to her research, Stella tutors Greek and Latin, and teaches Doshinkan Aikido, in which she currently holds the rank of Nidan Black Belt.

Rey George

Rey George

Rey George is an M.A. student in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. She received her B.A. in Classical Civilization from the University of Michigan in 2018 and her M.A. in Classical Studies from McGill University in 2020. Her research interests include ancient notions of cosmology, linguistic portrayals of the soul in poetry and prose, narratives of metaphysical motion, and the role of divinity in ancient conceptions of psychology.

Jenni Glaser

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Jenni is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. She earned a B.A. from Biola University in 2008 and an M.A. in classical philology from Fordham University in 2013 and an M.A. from 捆绑强奸 in 2021 with a thesis on Emotion in Seneca鈥檚 Tragedies. She taught Greek and Latin for the Polis Institute of Languages and Humanities before coming to 捆绑强奸. She is currently writing her dissertation on Lucian and Old Comedy. Her interests also include Lucretius, Ovid, Aristophanes, and Renaissance reception.
 

Michael Kriege

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Michael Kriege is an M.A. student in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Chicago in 2018. In 2020 he completed a post-baccalaureate program in Classics at UCLA. He is interested in ancient magic and religion and how authors interact with it in their texts.

Devin Lawson

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Devin is a Ph.D. student in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. She received her B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Classical Studies from Coe College in 2019 and her M.A. from 捆绑强奸 in 2022 with a thesis entitled "Dismembered According to the Rigor of Harmony: A Structuralist Reading of Zosimos' Visions." Her research interests include epistolography, ancient religion and magic, late antiquity, and the archaeology of the Bay of Naples.

Seth Levin

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Seth is an M.A. student in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. He graduated from Dickinson College in 2019 with a B.A. in Classical Studies, and wrote his honors thesis concerning Caesar鈥檚 narratology in his Commentaries. His academic interests include historiography, satire and comedy, and epic.

Mary Somerville

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Mary is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. She received her B.A. in Latin in 2015 from Wake Forest University. She received her M.A. from 捆绑强奸 in 2017 with a thesis entitled "Seditio and Civil War: Mutiny and Loyalty in Lucan's Pharsalia." Her dissertation investigates depictions of male tears in the early Roman empire, attempting to locate crying behaviors within a larger cultural framework of gendered values. Her other research interests include Greek and Latin epic poetry, Roman satire, and ancient religion.

Sophia Ophelia L. Tob谩r

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Sophia is currently an M.A. student in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. She completed her B.A. at CUNY Hunter College with a double major in Greek & Latin and Anthropology. Her area of research centers on the construction of Ancient ethnic groups within Greek Literature and their lasting echoes in the modern era, particularly in the Ancient Near East. She is particularly interested in Greek Tragedy, Hellenistic Poetry, and the Greek and Latin Novels.

Caelie McRobert

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Caelie McRobert is a graduate student in the department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. Her research interest is in combining Classics and Social Psychology research. She received her B.A. from Vassar College in Greek and Roman Studies with a research focus on rhetoric and meter used for depictions of women in Augustan Era poetry. She then worked at a research assistant in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition department at Northwestern University in Dr. Paul Reber鈥檚 lab studying implicit memory. Most recently, she received her master鈥檚 degree from Ball State University in Social Psychology with a focus on gender bias in language. She now hopes to bring psychology knowledge and methodology back into her Classical research to understand historic depictions of women, enslaved individuals, and LGBTQ+ individuals in a new light.