Professors Alex Purves (Classics) and Gina Konstantopoulos (NELC) recently delivered papers at the “What is Life? Ancient Answers to Modern Questions” Conference, hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute in…
Read MoreWe’re pleased to announce that Bryant Kirkland’s new course “Black Classicism: African-American Receptions of Classical Antiquity” (CL 171), which he will teach this Spring, has been approved for UCLA’s Diversity…
Read MoreCongratulations to Giulia Sissa, co-editor with Clifford Ando of volume I “Antiquity” in the Cultural History of Ideas series (Bloomsbury), which has been selected as the winner in the category…
Read MorePhD student Nicolette D’Angelo has recently published “What Would Hippokrates Do? Classical Reception in the Age of COVID-19” in The Rootcutter, a new science and medicine blog founded by the…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Professor Greg Woolf, the Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History at UCLA, is joining the Classics Department on a 0% appointment. Professor Woolf has…
Read MoreHannah Čulík-Baird has recently published “Erasing the Aethiopian in Cicero’s Post Reditum in Senatu, in Ramus 51.2 (2023), 182-202. In this article, Professor Čulík-Baird argues that the word “aethiops” (removed from the text…
Read MoreProfessor John Papadopoulos recently delivered a lecture in the Epichorios: Neue Forschungen im antiken Griechenland series at the University of Münster, entitled “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project.”
Read MoreCongratulations to graduate student Emma Pauly on their recent publication of a review of Massimiliano Morini’s Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury 2022) in the theater translation journal Mercurion. https://the-mercurian.com/2022/11/15/review-of-theatre-translation-theory-and-practice/
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that first-year graduate student Nicolette D’Angelo has won the Lambda Classical Caucus Best Graduate Student Paper award for 2022 with “What would Hippocrates do? Contagious classical…
Read MoreThe second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato has just been published, featuring articles by two department faculty members. David Blank contributed the entry on “Writing” in the dialogues, and Kathryn…
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