Professor Amy Richlin gave seven lectures this Fall on the topic of “Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica” for the Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series. The lectures were delivered…
Read MoreThis Fall Professor Alex Purves delivered the annual Corbett Lecture at Cambridge University, entitled “Once and Ever: Waiting for the Future in Homer’s Iliad.” A recording of the lecture will…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Bryant Kirkland was delighted to have his new book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: criticism, imitation, reception (Oxford, 2022) reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, a venerable general-interest publication with…
Read MoreCongratulations to Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland on the publication of his first book, *Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception*, out today from Oxford University Press! https://tinyurl.com/3r5jktcs
Read MoreProf Richlin has co-authored an SCS blog post with University of Michigan Classics colleague Prof Bruce Frier entitled “‘Deeply rooted in history’: Teaching abortion ancient and modern in a post-Roe…
Read MoreWarm congratulations to Nicholas Guymon, Cindy Liu, and Dido Wang, all winners of the 2022 Helen Caldwell Award for Outstanding Major. This is the highest honor the Department of Classics…
Read MoreCongratulations to the Class of 2022 on behalf of the Classics Department! You did it! On behalf of the entire Department of Classics, we want to congratulate you on all…
Read MoreUCLA Classics is thrilled to welcome a new professor to our faculty: Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird will join the department this Fall as Associate Professor of Classics. Hannah received her PhD…
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We are delighted to announce that Julio Cesar Vega-Payne will be joining our Department as one of five new UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows in 2022-23. Julio earned his PhD in…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Classics PhD student Andres Matlock has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. Andres received his…
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