Nicolette D’Angelo
I came to UCLA in 2022 after receiving an MPhil at Oxford and an AB in Classics at Princeton. My research applies critical queer, trans, and feminist epistemologies to the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, with a particular interest in the history of medicine and gendered technologies. I operate within two scholarly collectives, Queer and the Classical (QATC) and Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS), both of which seek to radically alter what counts as classical scholarship.
Recent or forthcoming work concerns: the concept of plasticity in imperial Roman medicine; the intersections of queerness, classical reception studies, and contagion; affect theory and queer kinship in ancient medical studies; the vexed relationship of classics to pedagogy; and the reception of Hippocratic ideas in both anti-vax and anti-trans discourses.
At UCLA, I have taught the intensive ancient Greek language workshop and TA’d for lecture courses in Classics and Political Science.
Publications
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“Reconceptualizing Difficulty in Classics Using Critical Pedagogical Approaches” (with Jonah Stewart), in: Res Difficiles 1.1 (2024): 10-29.
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“Hippocrates the ‘father’? Disturbing attachment genealogies in the history of medicine,” in: E. Haselswerdt, S. H. Lindheim & K. Ormand, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory (Routledge 2023): 217-29.
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“What Would Hippokrates Do?” in: The Rootcutter (2023)
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“Working Classics” in: Eidolon (2020)