Students who have completed graduate studies at NYU have produced outstanding scholarship over the full range of Classics. They have gone on to pursue diverse, exciting careers, including as librarians, teachers, and faculty members at Classics departments across the country.
Recent Alumnae & Alumni
George Baroud received his PhD in 2015. He is now Assistant Professor in the
Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to that he was Visiting Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies at NYU (2018-19), where he was also the inaugural Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in Social Foundations (2015-18). George's work is chiefly concentrated on early imperial Roman literature, politics, and culture; Greek and Roman rhetoric and historiography; and the theory and philosophy of history. He also has strong interests in the reception of classical literature and culture in the Arabic/Islamic worlds. His monograph, tentatively titled Tacitus' Annals and the Aesthetics of Historyis in preparation, and he has three forthcoming book chapters in edited volumes: on the reading practices and readership of historical literature in the early empire; amicitiaand politics in Valerius Maximus; and memory and trauma under Domitian, Nerva, and Trajan; the former two with Brill, the last with Cambridge. George is also a contributor to the Tacitus Encyclopediafor Wiley-Blackwell Press. As an instructor, George has won multiple awards for teaching and mentorship, including NYU's Jose Vazquez teaching award two years consecutively. He has designed a wide range of courses in history, literature, philosophy, rhetoric, political theory, mythology, religion, travel and ethnography, and race and ethnicity, spanning the the ancient to early modern periods; these have all been interdisciplinary, comparative, and global in perspective. As a graduate student, he was awarded the Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, the Lane Cooper Dissertation Writing Fellowship, the Antonina S. Ranieri International Scholars Fund, an NYU Global Research Fellowship, and a DAAD fellowship, which allowed him to spend a year in Berlin at the Humboldt University. He has shared his work in Brazil, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
Outside of his work as a Classicist, George is a photographer with a strong interest in social documentary and travel photography. One ongoing project entitled “All That Remains” combines his numerous interests and involves photographing classical sites in his homeland of Lebanon— a small gesture towards preserving the images of a heritage that faces a real risk of total obliteration. You can see some of these images on his photography website: http://www.georgebaroud.com/home/allthatremains/ Email: george_baroud@emerson.edu
Joel Christensen (he/his) is Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University where he also serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences. He taught previously at the University of Texas at San Antonio (2007-2016). He received his BA and MA from Brandeis (’01) in Classics and English and his PhD in Classics from New York University (2007) where he also received an Advanced Certificate in Poetics and Theory.
Joel has been a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (2013) and has received the Society for Classical Studies’ Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level (2013). In addition to articles on language, myth and literature in the Homeric epics, he has published a Beginner’s Guide to Homer (One World, 2013) and also a Homer’s Thebes (CHS, 2019) with Elton T. E. Barker as well as A Commentary on the Homeric Battle of Frogs and Mice (Bloomsbury, 2018) with Erik Robinson. In 2020, he published The Many-Minded Man: the Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic with Cornell University Press and has a forthcoming book on epic and narrative from Yale University Press and an edited volume from Oxford University Press on the Homeric Odyssey. Email: joel@brandeis.edu
María Fernanda Crespo received her Ph.D. in 2016 with a dissertation entitled Legality and Political Power in Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile, under the direction of Dr. David Levene. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her main interests are Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric, ancient political thought and Roman republican law. Currently, she is working on several projects: the politics of social relations in Caesar’s writings; the conceptual history of dictatorship and mechanisms that suspend the law in the Late Roman republic; the textuality of the legal operations in the process of romanization of Cisalpine Gaul; and also the Latin language used in reserved communications of the Society of Jesus in Early Hispanic America. She has published on the concept of Empire and the epistemology of everyday life in classical Athens.
Stephanie Crooks received her PhD from NYU’s Department of Classics in September 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in NYU’s College Core Curriculum before taking on her current position at the Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan. Her current book project, “The Poet’s Tomb: Space for Immortality in Augustan Rome” explores the elegists’ tendency to imagine their own tombs and epitaphs in their first century BCE-CE works. Her current research interests include the creation of hybrid landscapes in Roman poetry, a topic that participates in a broader discourse about Roman imperialization and identity, as well as material culture, and socio-cultural history. A recent example of Stephanie’s scholarship can be found in Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World, published in 2018. Prior to joining the Core, Stephanie taught elementary Latin at Hofstra University and NYU, and worked as an assistant for the Society of Classical Studies.
Lorenzo Del Monte received his Ph.D. in 2022. He received his BA (2012) and his MA (2015) in Classics from the University of Rome Sapienza. He also received a certificate in teaching Italian as a foreign language from the Italian Institute of Culture in London and worked at the Institute of Roman Studies in Rome as an archivist and a co-editor. At NYU Lorenzo worked as a student assistant for the Society for Classical Studies, received specific training in Mycenaean at the British school in Athens and taught as a teaching assistant and instructor of Classics. He spent one year as a visiting student at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) to develop his interdisciplinary dissertation project on state formation and price-setting in the ancient world. Lorenzo’s primary interests of study include ancient economy, Mycenaean Greek, Homeric epics and connections between the Greco-Roman world and the Eastern Mediterranean. Email: ldm360@nyu.edu
Sharon Eastlund received her M.A. in Classics from NYU in 2022. She received a B.A. in Classics from Cornell University and then an M.A. in Classics from Columbia University, where she focused on Callimachean poetics and their influence on the Roman neoteric movement. After a hiatus for editing, writing, and parenting, she returned to her studies in the field of Classics first at UC Boulder and then at NYU. Sharon is interested in the presentation of gender and race in Plautine comedy. She is also intrigued by the cult of Aphrodite on the Acropolis and the links between ritual, childhood, fertility, and social stabilization. At present, Sharon plans to explore the emotional bond forged between mothers and children across different tiers of Roman society. Email: sre268@nyu.edu.
Amanda Hawley received her M.Phil. in 2017. She came to NYU after obtaining her undergraduate degree in Classical Languages and Literature with a minor in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan in 2012. Email: ah2644@nyu.edu
Daniel Hoyer received his Ph.D. in 2014 with a dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Monson on the development of market forces, the growth of urban centers, and the role of money and investment in these processes in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis during the Imperial period. A monograph based on this work, titled Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's ecomomic development, 0-275 CE was published by Brill's Mnemosyne Supplements in the History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity in 2018. He is currently project manager of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project, a large-scale, interdisciplinary and comparative project hosted by the Evolution Institute and the University of Oxford. He is also a Visiting Scholar in the Classics Department at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in comparative economic and social history, with a focus on exploring dynamic changes in the institutional features and structures which underpin economic performance and the provision of public goods in these different places and times. For more information, including his CV and links to some of his articles, see his academia.edu profile. Email: dan.hoyer@utoronto.ca
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Philip Katz received his Ph.D. in 2020 with a dissertation entitled “Cultural Histories of the Ship in the Greek and Roman Aegean,” under the direction of Barbara Kowalzig. During his time at NYU, Phil received fellowships to conduct field research at both the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2014-15, 16-17) and the American Academy in Rome (2019); excavated at the Athenian Agora (2011), Corinth (2015), and Samothrace (2016-18); and taught Latin at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei (2014). His research explores the intersections between maritime studies and cultural history, and he has recently published an article reevaluating the functions of maritime monuments in the Hellenistic North Aegean. He is currently preparing several additional publications examining the role of Votive Ships at the Samian Heraion and the use of naval spolia in the Augustan monuments at Nikopolis. Phil currently works at Princeton University as the Academic Administration Fellow in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, and previously served as Archives Manager for American Excavations Samothrace. For more information and links to his CV and publications, click here. Email: phil.j.katz@gmail.com
Stephen Kidd received his doctorate in 2011 with a dissertation on Greek comedy, and is now an Associate Professor at Brown University. He is author of Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy(Cambridge University Press, 2014), as well as articles published on various topics (comic scholia, Aristotle, the meaning of ancient Greek words, gambling in antiquity, and the history of mathematical probability, to name a few). He is currently writing a book titled Lucian Beyond the Personas: On Reading, Performing, and the Difference. Email: Stephen_E_Kidd@Brown.edu.
Inger Kuin graduated in 2015 with her dissertation titled "Playful Piety: Lucian and the Comic in Ancient Religious Experience." Inger is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. She works on the Greek literature of the Roman Empire, and is interested in the intersections during this period between religion, popular culture, and philosophy. Kuin is working on a monograph on the comic works of Lucian of Samosata, titled The Gods in Lucian: Humor, Popular Culture, and Religion in the Second Century CE. She has published an introduction to ancient religion—in Dutch—entitled Leven met goden. Religie in de oudheid, which was the runner up for the 2018 Homerus Prize for the best Dutch popular book on antiquity. Kuin has co-edited several volumes, either already in print or about to appear: Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC – 100 AD) (Sidestone Press 2018); After the Crisis. Remembrance, Re-Anchoring, and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury 2020). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on imperial Greek historiography, Latin epigraphy, and ancient philosophy, and is a regular contributor to Dutch newspapers and magazines.
Danielle La Londe completed her Ph.D. in 2010 with a dissertation entitled, "The Spectacle of Treaty-Making in Latin Poetry.” Danielle is an assistant professor of Classical Studies at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, a liberal arts college founded in 1819. Her research focuses on political thought in Latin poetry of the late republic through the age of Nero. She is currently writing a commentary of Vergil’s Eclogues for Dickinson College Commentaries, and an article on the influence of Virgil’s Georgics on the pastoral poetry of the Neronian poet, Calpurnius Siculus. She teaches Latin language and literature, and a wide range of courses on classical antiquity, including Pompeii, and the reception of classical antiquity in film. In 2017, she took students to Italy for her January course on ancient Rome. Email: danielle.lalonde@centre.edu
Ian Lockey graduated from NYU in June 2010 after completing a dissertation with a focus on Roman housing entitled The Atrium House in Aphrodisias, Caria. After graduating, Ian completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught language courses in Latin and Ancient Greek and archaeology courses on Aphrodisias and Roman Britain. While there, he also completed an article entitled "Ancient Olive Oil Production and Rural Settlement", published in Aphrodisias V: The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012). Ian is now teaching middle school and high school Latin at Friends Select School in Philadelphia.
Michael Mascio received his PhD in 2013, on “Horace and Philosophy,” working with Gregson Davis, David Konstan, and Phillip Mitsis. He is Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University. His scholarly interests are Hellenistic philosophy and Latin poetry. He has taught Elementary Greek and Intermediate Latin (Cicero, Sallust, and Vergil), been a TA for Roman Republican History and MAP (NYU’s great books program), and in the summers taught Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Reading Latin for Graduate Students, and Ancient Greek History. He has given papers on "Horace and Cicero in Latin Literary History" at a joint colloquium of the University of North Carolina and Duke University (2004), "The Creation of an Aesthetic Hierarchy" at a workshop given by NYU's Poetics & Theory Program (2004), “From Philosophy’s Place to Death’s Embrace: Reading Spaces in Horace’s Epicurean Odes,” at Johns Hopkins University (2005), and “Aristippus and Ulysses in Horace, Epistles 1” at the APA (2007), and gave a paper entitled “HoraceSermones 2.7 and Cicero’s Paradoxa Stoicorum” at the 2008 APA meeting in Chicago. Email:michaelmascio@gmail.com
Del A. Maticic is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He completed his doctorate at NYU in 2022. His primary research focuses on Hellenistic and Roman literature and its reception and is interested especially in problems of ecology, materiality, and subjectivity. As part of this he is working on a monograph tentatively entitled Raw Materiality and the Ecology of Augustan Literature, which draws on a wide range of ancient and contemporary theories of matter to reconsider how materia mediates the relationship between bodies, things, and ideas in the works of Vergil and his contemporaries. Del has published articles on Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, and Ausonius. He is currently co-editing a volume on the relationship between labor and subjectivity in the Roman world. He is also interested in the role of gradduate students and other precarious members of the academy in the future of Classics, and has written on the future of Classics graduate study after COVID-19. He is currently a Member-at-Large of the Society for Classical Studies Board of Directors.
Brooke McArdle completed her MA in Classics in 2023. She received her BA in Classical Languages and History from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Brooke has published in undergraduate journals as well as in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. She has also presented at several conferences for Classics, History, and Ancient Near Eastern studies. Her primary research interests include the representation of Eastern women in Classical narratives and Homeric reception of Near Eastern ritual motifs. Brooke's recent scholarship has focused on Homeric hospitality customs and explores their potential relation to similar rituals in Akkadian literary texts.
Jay Mueller completed his Ph.D. in 2016 with a dissertation entitled "Literary Midwifery before Plato: Case Studies in Indirect Communication." Email: jaymueller@nyu.edu
Ben Nikota completed his Ph.D. in 2023. He graduated from McGill University in 2012 with a BA in Classics, with minors in History and Western Scriptural Languages. He completed his MA in Classical Languages at the University of Georgia in 2014. He then taught Latin at a middle school in Texas and English at various public and private institutions in Quebec. He is completed dissertation on a corpus of Hellenistic-era Jewish authors preserved via Alexander Polyhistor, who was then cited by late antique Christian apologists and polemicists. His ancillary interests include the use of synchronicistic timekeeping in ancient historiography, Goethe and German Romanticism, and the history of drama and theater from the 5th century Athens to the early modern period. He has delivered papers at conferences hosted by the Ohio State University, Boston University, the North American Goethe Society, as well as at CAMWS' annual meeting. Email: ben233@nyu.edu
Nathalie Sado Nisinson received her PhD in Classics in 2017. Her areas of interest include Augustan literature and religion, Latin pedagogy, and spoken Latin. In Fall of 2017, she takes up a new position as Upper School Latin Teacher at the Marymount School of New York. Email: nathalielsn@gmail.com
Mikael Papadimitriou received his PhD from NYU’s Department of Classics in 2022 and is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at NYU’s College Core Curriculum. His current book project, Measuring One's Worth: Letters of Recommendation and Governmental Appointments in the Roman Empire, explores the mechanisms surrounding the appointment of government officials in the Roman Empire from the second half of the first to the end of the fourth century CE, and focuses on the role played by letters of recommendation within this process. His current research interests include the ways in which Romans conceptualized their system of governance during both the early and late imperial period and how that conception shaped the way in which individuals interacted with their government, as well as how it influenced the latter’s development.
Christopher Parmenter received his Ph.D. in Classics from New York University (2020), M.A. from the University of Oregon (2013), and A.B. from Hamilton College (2010). He is now Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. In his book project, “Racialized commodities: Long-distance trade, mobility, and the emergence of the body in Archaic and Classical Greece,” he traces the emergence of a distinct idea of physiognomical ‘race’ in Greece between c. 800-500 BCE. Drawing on evidence that includes Archaic poetry, merchant letters, customs ledgers, and sanctuary votive assemblages, he argues that long-distance sea traders purposefully cultivated images of non-Greek bodies to market commodities in Greek cities. There was a human toll to these transactions: in his recent article, “Journeys into Slavery on the Black Sea Coast, c. 550-450 BCE” (Classical Antiquity 39.1 [2020]), Chris gives names and faces to the people who were themselves caught up as commodities on the Greek marketplace. He has also studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (2015-16) and the University of Oxford (2018). Email: parmenter.14@osu.edu
Zachary Rosalinsky completed his M.A. in Classics in 2023. He graduated from New York University in 2019 with a B.M. in Instrumental Performance, and also graduated in August 2022 with his M.L.I.S. from Long Island University, concentrating in Rare Books and Special Collections through the joint dual-degree program between NYU and LIU Palmer. Zach's main interests are daily life in Roman Republican and early-Imperial urban centers, representations of musicians in Roman literature, and the intersection of Classics and Print and Manuscript Studies from antiquity through today. He currently works as a Special Collections Catalog Librarian with the New York Botanical Garden.
Rebekah Rust received her Ph.D. in 2023. She received her B.A. in Classics from UNC Chapel Hill and a M.St. in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford as an Ertegun scholar. Her general interests are in dramatic and choral performances, psychology, emotions, and cognitive linguistics in Greek poetry; and in particular in the aesthetics of literary and conceptual metaphors of emotions in Greek drama. Her doctoral dissertation is a psychological, literary, and dramatic analysis of the metaphors of thumos in Greek tragedy. She is a proponent of Natural Language Processing tools and Natural Language Understanding models as essential components to the modern philologist's toolkie. Her interest in the interweaving of psychology, tragedy, and performance has also led her to work and to present on the reception of Greek tragedy in the 20th century dance of Martha Graham. She has taught Elementary Latin and Classical Mythology and worked as a graduate assistant in the Classics and Computer Science departments and as a recitation preceptor in the CAS CORE program. Email: rebekah.rust@nyu.edu
Benjamin Sammons graduated in 2007 with a dissertation on Homer. Since then he has published numerous articles on early Greek literature, as well as two books, The Art and Rhetoric of the Homeric Catalogue (Oxford, 2010) and Device & Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle (Oxford, 2017). He has taught at Penn State University, NYU, and Queens College (CUNY). Having recently relocated to Oregon, Ben now divides his time between parenting, writing, urban farming and amateur mycology. Email: benjamin.sammons@gmail.com
Laura Santander received her Ph.D. in 2022. She received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Classical Languages and Literature in 2013. Her senior honors thesis compared narrative techniques in Homer's Iliad and Euripides' Troades. In her dissertation, "Creating False Realities," she examined Plato's Republic, through a comparison with modern advertising, for its potential for political and psychological manipulation. Her interests include propaganda in Greco-Roman literature, Platonism, political theory, narrative manipulation, epic poetry, and history of modern advertising.
Rebecca Sausville received her Ph.D. in 2023. During her time at NYU, she served as the Innovation and Career Initiatives Fellow at the Modern Language Association (supported by the joint NYU-Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Doctoral Fellowship). She came to NYU in 2015 by way of the University of Kentucky (M.A., Classics; Graduate Certificate, Latin Studies, 2015) and Fordham College at Lincoln Center (B.A., Classics, 2011). Her dissertation focused on civic expressions of paideia in the Roman east from epigraphic, archaeological, and literary perspectives, a project which germinated during her year as the Michael Jameson fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2018-2019). Secondary projects and interests include freelance translation, papyrology, ancient and modern pedagogy, and field archaeology (Cyprus, Sicily, and Greece). Email: rsausville@nyu.edu
Calloway Scott, who received his PhD in 2017, is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. A historian of ancient Greece, his research is informed by an interest in the entanglements of science and society. Inspired by turns in medical history and medical anthropology, his current book-project examines the ways health and disease were conceived of and experienced as biological, social, and political phenomena in antiquity. Among other things, he is interested in the historical uses (and abuses) of the Hippocratic Corpus; cultural perceptions of heredity; and divination, epistemology, and institutionalism in the Mediterranean. He has published in leading journals and is a regular contributor to Synapsis, a public-facing project in support of the medical humanities. He has taught courses on ancient religion and magic, Graeco-Roman medicine, and dreams in the ancient and modern world. Full CV at https://uc.academia.edu/CallowayScott. Email: calloway.scott@uc.edu
Amit Shilo received his Ph.D. in 2012 with a dissertation on the ethical and political ramifications of the afterlife in the Oresteia. In the 2012-13 year he joined the faculty of NYU Classics as a Language Lecturer. For 2013-14 he has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research and teaching have gained much from material culture training and archeological fieldwork during a year as a Phillip Lockhart Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Amit has recently published Beyond Death in the Oresteia Poetics, Ethics, and Politics with Cambridge University Press, and is currently writing an article on Seneca’s Natural Questions, and another in biblical philology on the language of creation in Genesis. His long-term research is on ancient and modern attempts to combine religious and philosophical thought with politics. Email: as220@nyu.edu
Melanie Subacus received her Ph.D. in 2015 with a dissertation entitled: "Duae Patriae: Cicero and Political Cosmopolitanism in Rome" and her BA in 2007 from Saint Joseph's University. She attended the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome as a student in the spring of 2006 and returned as an instructor for 2012-13. A fan of intensive educational environments, she also attended the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 2010 and taught for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in the summer of 2015. She has presented papers on translations of Vergil's Aeneid, translations of children's literature into Latin, and Lucan. Articles in progress include political failure in Lucan as well as cultural kinship in Cicero's Verrine orations. She has taught Latin at all levels, general education courses on race and women in the ancient world, and a course on Plato. This year she is in Philadelphia teaching at both Villanova and Temple University. Her interests include republican Latin literature, Roman political thought, gender studies, and playing adult intramural sports. Email: msubacus@gmail.com
Osman Umurhan received his PhD in 2008. He is currently Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, having taught earlier at Austin College and Rutgers University. His primary research focuses on verse satire and other literature of the Roman Empire, with a concentration on the shifting correspondences between geographical boundaries and those of cultural and political identity. He has published articles and books chapters on Juvenal that include his poetic self-representation (Arethusa 44.2) and his engagement with traditions of the New Testament (Brill 2013). His book, Juvenal's Global Awareness: Circulation, Connectivity, and Empire has recently been published by Routledge. Currently, he is working on several projects: the Roman politics of food and consumption, the anatomical politics of Aristophanic comedy, the reception of Classics in metal music. Email: osu200@nyu.edu
Joel Ward received his PhD in 2011 with a dissertation on the instances and uses of viewing in the Severan narratives of Cassius Dio, Herodian, and the Historia Augusta. He received his BA from Hope College in a field of tulips and windmills and his MA from Tulane University on the banks of the Mississippi. He served as the Assistant Professor at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (2012-13), having moved up the ladder from resident instructor (2008-09) to an instructor with a residence. In 2009, he participated in the graduate seminar at the American Numismatic Society, where he was allowed to hold a solid gold bar at the Federal Reserve, a hoard of Athenian owls, and an Athenian decadrachm (but not all at once – his hands aren’t that big). He has published a few things in journals and presented a few papers at conferences. Aside from Rome, he has had the good fortune to teach or study in several amazing places: Berlin, Taipei, Münster, just to name them all. Recently, he joined the dark side (aka administration). After a stint at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the office of Education Abroad, he has come back “home” to Washington Square and NYU where he is the Assistant Dean for Students in the College of Arts and Science. Email: jsw298@nyu.edu
Tung-An Wei (Miranda) received her MA in 2016 from NYU and her doctorate in Comparative
Literature from the University of Maryland in 2021. She is currently an Assistant Professor at
Soochow University, Taiwan. Her research interests include Twentieth- and Twenty-First
Century British Literature, Narrative and Critical Theory, and Southeast Asian Anglophone and
Sinophone Literature. Email: mirandawei3@gmail.com
Brett Wisniewski completed his Ph.D. in 2015. His thesis was entitled "Casting Spells in Augustan Poetry: Magic, Song, and Discourses of Power." He teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, Media Studies, and Mindfulness Meditation at the Browning School in Manhattan, NY. He is researching the influence of Pliny the Elder on the occult philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa. His band, Watergate, released a new album in 2016, which is available here.