Zachary Borst

Zachary Borst received his Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA and submitted his dissertation Mimesis as Metamorphosis in Classical Greek Literature in June 2021. He has also received an M.A. in Classics (UCLA, 2015), an M.A. in Comparative Literature (UC Riverside, 2014), and a B.A. in English Literature (Concordia University Irvine, 2012). His research interests include archaic and classical Greek poetry, ancient aesthetics and literary criticism, critical theory, and Ovid. He has presented papers at the Society for Classical Studies (2021), the California Classical Association (South) (2018), and the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (2013, 2014, 2017). He is currently working on a project on identity and referentiality in Aristophanes’ Frogs and Euripides’ Bacchae.