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Graduate Students in Residence

Charles Bartlett is a 1st-year MA student who came to NYU from McGill University with a BA in Classics and in History. His interests include landscape and space in Hellenistic and Augustan poetry, and the portrayal of historical figures in literature. He also plans to study archaeology and ancient history while at NYU. Email: cfb254@nyu.edu

George Baroud is a 2nd-year student who came to NYU from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2008) with a BA in Classics. As an undergraduate, George participated in the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (Fall 2005). His undergraduate thesis, "Callimachus and Catullus: Poetry of Poetics," earned him the Phyllis B. Katz Student Prize Paper, and he presented it at CANE (2008). George’s chief interests, spanning both Greek and Latin, lie in literary theory and criticism, and political theory - specifically in poetry and historiography. He is also interested in exploring the Classical Near East (especially the Levant), namely, the cultural exchanges between “East” and “West” in Greek and Arabic literature and philosophy.

Susan Boland has been a part-time Ph.D. student for the last two years. She graduated summa cum laude from Colby College with a B.A. in Classics and received an M.A. in Classics from Harvard University. She has served on Colby’s Board of Overseers since 2003. After 20 years in the investment management industry, she returned to her roots. Her interests include Greek language and literature, especially archaic poetry and tragedy, the Greek historians, and imperial Latin literature.

Maria Fernanda Crespo is a 5th-year student who came to NYU from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, with a “Licenciatura” in “Letras Clásicas.” Fernanda's current scholarly interests include Latin literature of the Late Republic and Empire and classical political thought, and theories of empire. She has taught Intermediate Latin (Cicero), Classical Mythology, and served as a TA in MAP (Antiquity and the 19th century) and the Greek Thinkers. She delivered a paper entitled “Cesarismo en Latinoamérica” in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the Symposium celebrating the bicentennial of Latin-American independence, forthcoming in UNAM, 2010. She has published “La Máscara de Sócrates” in Nostromo (México, II, 2, 2009). Email: mfc271@nyu.edu

Daniel Hoyer is a 2nd-year student who came to NYU with an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Toronto, both in Classics. His focus is on agrarian history and the political economy, principally of the Roman world but exploring also comparative approaches with other Imperial societies, both ancient and modern. He is interested particularly in the means by which ancient polities facilitated the growing and distribution of foods. He recently published an article on this topic entitled “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Republican Agriculture in Central and Southern Italy” as part of the Conference Proceedings The Italians on the Land: Changing Perspectives Then and Now (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009). Email: dch293@nyu.edu

Kyle P. Johnson is a 6th-year PhD candidate at New York University in the Classics Department. He has attended Boston College, Reed College (B.A., Classics, '02), and the University of California, Los Angeles. Kyle has published on sequential narrative in Homer in Comics and Classics (Oxford, 2010), Etruscan linguistics and medical practices (Etruscan News, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. 1, 8.), and has written a review of Marina Heilmeyer's Ancient Herbs (BMCR 2007.09.63). Kyle is also a co–founder of Hephaistos Text [hephaistos-text.org], an online host for free, open, and collaborative projects in classical philology. He is currently writing a dissertation, "Communicating Power in Caesar's Commentaries."
Email: kpj204@nyu.edu  

Stephen Kidd is a 4th-year graduate student. His interests are mainly in Greek poetry -- especially Greek comedy -- with developing interests in papyrology and Greco-Egyptian cultural interactions in Ptolemaic Egypt. He is writing a dissertation entitled "Nonsense & Laughter in Greek Comedy," which examines Greek notions of nonsense and applies these notions to Greek comedy. He has delivered papers at CUNY, Princeton, Montreal (CAC), Philadelphia (APA), London, Norway, and Venice (on topics such as Ovidian laughter, Greek laughter interjections, and a comic monologue from the Didot papyrus). He recently won the John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for an essay on Greek muscle-armor and homoeroticism, and has two articles forthcoming in conference proceedings (one on Herodotus and another on ancient Egyptian writing materials). He will be delivering a paper at the APA this year on a bilingual Greco-Egyptian papyrus which discusses an interesting nocturnal dream, so come check it out!
Email: stephenekidd@yahoo.com  

K. Scarlett Kingsley is a 1st-year student who completed her undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin at Florida State University. As an undergraduate, she completed a dissertation under the aegis of Laurel Fulkerson and John Marincola on the disenfranchised elite in Republican Rome, entitled: “Fulvia: Allusions of Grandeur.” Following this, Scarlett completed her M. St. at Oxford University, graduating with a distinction after writing a thesis supervised by Tim Rood, which was entitled: “Thucydides and the Sociology of the Neoi and Presbuteroi.” Her current research interests include Greek Historiography, Rhetoric, Ancient Medicine and Literary Theory.

Yekaterina Kosova is a 1st-year PhD student who completed her BA in Rhetoric and Philosophy at UC Berkeley and comes to NYU via the post-baccalaureate program in Classics at Columbia University. Her interests are in medicine and the exact sciences in antiquity.

Inger Kuin is a 1st-year PhD student. She was born in Leiden, The Netherlands, where she learned Greek and Latin in high school. After completing a BA in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, she did an MA in Journalism and worked as a reporter and editor for a Dutch newspaper, and for Dow Jones Newswires. She returned to academia to complete an MA in Philosophy, and this took her to the New School for Social Research in New York. An Aristotle reading group lured her back to Classics, and after a year as a Post-Baccalaureate student in Classics at Columbia University, she came to NYU. Her main interests include ancient philosophy, ancient political thought, and Greek authors of the first and second century AD. Email: nik212@nyu.edu

Danielle La Londe is a 7th-year student who came to NYU from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Classical Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation, “Treaty-Making and Spectacle in Latin Poetry.” She has taught Elementary and Intermediate Latin (Cicero), Intermediate Greek (Homer), Classical Mythology and served as a TA for Roman Imperial History and for MAP (Antiquity and the Enlightenment). In the summers of 2005-07, she taught Elementary Greek at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Her conference papers include "The War to End All Treaties: Civil War and Treaty-Making in Lucan's Bellum Civile" (CUNY), "Echoes of Virgil: Pastoral Melancholy in Pan's Labyrinth," (Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting), "Lavinia’s Blush: The Aesthetics of Treaty-Making in Virgil’s Aeneid" (NYU), and "Martial’s Matronae" (Brown University). She has published a book review of Monica Silveira Cyrino, Big Screen Rome (Malden, Mass., 2005) (Classical World 100.4). Danielle founded and  currently runs the bi-weekly Classics Movie Night, aimed at promoting interest in the Classics among undergraduates and exploring the relationship between Classics and popular culture.
Email: dll238@nyu.edu  

 

Ian Lockey is a 8th-year student who came to NYU from Cambridge University. He is finishing his dissertation, “The Atrium House at Aphrodisias, Caria”, which is a study of a Late Roman town house in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, where he excavates during the summer. His main area of interest is the archaeology of Asia Minor, but he is also interested in Early Christian history and literature. He has taught Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Latin, Elementary and Advanced Greek, and Ancient Greek History. Awards won include the Kenan Erim Grant for work at Aphrodisias, the Samuel H. Kress travel grant, both from the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Bothmer Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His conference papers include “Frontality and Performance in Early Christian Art and Architecture” (IFA), “The Faith of the Christians is Victorious? Stability amidst Change in the Atrium House at Aphrodisias” (Yale), and “A Multitude of Perspectives: The Birth of Aphrodite and the Christian Viewer” (OSU). He has a forthcoming article, “Evidence for Olive Oil Production and Rural Settlement in the Territory of Aphrodisias,” in the Aphrodisias Regional Survey volume.
Email: iml209@nyu.edu  

 

Michael Mascio is a 8th-year student who came to NYU from Johns Hopkins with a BA in Classics. He is writing his dissertation on “Horace and Philosophy.” 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 the MAP (Antiquity and 19th c.), 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 ‘Horace Sermones 2.7 and Cicero’s Paradoxa Stoicorum’ at the 2008 APA meeting in Chicago.
Email: mcm300@nyu.edu  

 

Jay Mueller is a 3rd-year student who came to NYU from Columbia, with an MA in English. He received his BA from Eugene Lang College in philosophy and literary theory. His research interests include archaic Greek poetry and ancient literary theory, and he also studies the reception of classical literature.
Email: jaymueller@nyu.edu  

 

Nathalie Sado Nisinson is a 4th-year graduate student with a BA in Classics from Vassar College. Her main interests include the work of Ovid, the literary and social history of Augustan Rome, and hero legend. In keeping with her interest in heroes, she presented a paper at the 2008 Harvard Graduate Student Conference entitled "Death or Glory: Hero-cult as a Model for Public Grief in Pindar's Eighth Isthmian Ode." She is currently developing a dissertation topic that will focus on the cultural and political significance of Roman funerary practice in hero myth, most likely limited to the work of Ovid. She is also currently working with Stephen Kidd to produce the NYU Classics conference for graduate students, "Honey on the Cup: Didactic Poetry in the Ancient World," planned for Nov. 7th 2009.
Email: ns1206@nyu.edu  

Kimberly Regler is a 2nd-year student who came to NYU from Colgate University (2008) with a BA in Classics. As an undergraduate, she completed her honors thesis on the structural unity of Sophocles' Trachiniae and was awarded the J. Curtiss Austin Latin Prize. Her scholarly interests include Greek Tragedy, the use of philosophy in Latin epic, and the oral treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus.

Calloway Scott is a 1st-year graduate student. He completed his undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin at Kenyon College (2007) with a minor in Philosophy. After graduation he completed a post-baccalaureate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Calloway’s interests lie in the historical development of rhetoric, literary theory, reception, and the interaction between philosophy and poetry, especially in ‘non-philosophic’ or ‘non-political’ texts.

Amit Shilo is a 4th-year student who received his BA at NYU in Literature and History in 2000 and spent two years in the Postbaccalaureate in Classics at Columbia University. His dissertation will analyze the Oresteia, Antigone, Alcestis, and Phaedo for their different creative relations to death. Last year he was at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where he focused on death and burial in the material culture of archaic and classical Greece. His other interests are Seneca and the Hebrew Bible. He has taught Latin, Greek, Mythology, and Ancient Religion at NYU.
Email: as220@nyu.edu  

 

Sean Signore is a 3rd-year student who received his BA from Brandeis in Greek and History in 2002. After two years as a post-baccalaureate student at Penn, he took an MA at the University of Georgia in 2007 with a thesis entitled, "Achilles and Andromache: Gender Ambiguity in Motif, Narrative, and Formula." His interests are Greek Poetry, Homer, Indo-European Linguistics, Vedic Sanskrit, Scholia, and Classical Chinese. He taught elementary Latin at the University of Georgia and gave a paper at CAMWS in 2006 entitled,  "Andromache's Aristeia: The Poetic Resonance of Iliad 22.460."  In the Summer 2008, he taught intensive elementary and intermediate Ancient Greek at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan. In March 2009, he gave a paper entitled, “Kingly Bowshots and Willful Monkeys: Points of Contact between archaic Greek poetry and the 16th century Chinese Novel” at the inaugural Classics symposium at the University of Texas San Antonio. He is a project member of The Homer Multi-Text at The Center for Hellenic Studies.
Email: sean.signore@gmail.com  

 

Melanie Subacus is a 3rd-year student who received her BA from Saint Joseph's University in Latin. She attended the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome in the Spring of 2006. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Translation and Appropriation of Vergil’s Aeneid"  at Bryn Mawr in December of 2009 and has a collaborative translation of Propertius 2.33B in the forthcoming Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students (New York, 2010). Her interests include Latin epic, translation theory, and gender studies.
Email: msubacus@yahoo.com  

 

Joel Ward is a 6th-year student with a BA from Hope College and an MA from Tulane University. His interests are Roman historiography, Greek prose, ancient sociolinguistics, and numismatics. This summer, he participated in the graduate seminar at the ANS. As his seminar project, he is writing a catalog of the Severan issues of the Peloponnesus. His dissertation focuses on the instances and uses of viewing in the Severan narratives of Cassius Dio, Herodian and the HA. He has published a paper on Josephus and is currently revising one on Sallust’s Catiline for submission. He has delivered papers at CAMWS, the APA and the CA. He has taught various courses at Tulane, NYU, the Fu Jen University (Taipei, Taiwan), and was the graduate instructor at the ICCS (Rome) last year. He is currently in the first of a two-year fellowship at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, where he will either finish his dissertation or quit trying.
Email: jsw298@nyu.edu  

 

Brett Wisniewski is a 6th-year graduate student currently writing a dissertation with the working title of "Spell-casting in Augustan Poetry: Magic and Discourses of Power." His interests include Latin literature, Religion, and the development of Western Occultism. He received NYU's Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2007-2008. He has a forthcoming article entitled "Curse Tablets and the Performance of Text" in the proceedings from the University College of London's colloquium "Writing as Material Practice: Surface, Substance, Medium." He taught an intensive Latin course in the summer of 2009 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China and plans on going back next year.
Email: blw239@nyu.edu  

Continuing Graduate Students (employed outside NYU)

Rebecka Lindau is leaving her position as the classics bibliographer at Princeton University to become the librarian at the American Academy in Rome. She entered the Ph.D. program in classics at NYU in the fall of 1998 with an MA in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from Stockholm  University. Her dissertation is on “Artemis and Virginity in Classical Antiquity.” Her interests include: Greek tragedy, archaic lyric poetry, and religion. She has taught Latin, Greek, Ancient Philosophy, and Classical Mythology at the International School of Languages in Los Angeles and at Continuing Education at Stockholm University. Among her awards is a Fulbright fellowship and among her publications are:  "A review of Gender and Politics in Greek Tragedy," LIBRES: An International Electronic Library Journal (2000) and "The Loeb Classical Library," Progressions 8.2 (1998). She is currently working on a source book on "Greek and Latin Authors: Editions, Translations, Commentaries, and Concordances" and on a database to locate the "Archives of Classical Scholars." She is the chair of the "Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication" at the APA.
Email: rlindau@Princeton.edu  

 

Krista Sheerin is currently on maternity leave from the Garden City High School on Long Island. She came to NYU from Villanova University with a B.A. in Classics/Honors. She also holds an M.A. in Education from Hofstra University.  After earning her M.A. in Classics from NYU, she studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.  She is currently in the final stages of writing her dissertation entitled "Tibullan Poetics: A Study in the Inevitability of Elegy."  Her other scholarly interests include Greek epic and Roman satire.  She held a teaching position at The Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan before moving to Garden City High School.  She has presented "An Analysis of the Herodotean LEGO" at CAAS and coached the student recitation of Horace’s Carmen saeculare along with Stephen Daitz at the New York Classical Club (2000), and has been, for several years, on the editorial staff of Classical World.
Email: ksheerin@optonline.net  

 

ALUMNI (past ten years)

 

Joel Christensen has a tenure-track job at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He graduated from NYU in 2007 with a dissertation on “The Failure of Speech: Rhetoric and Politics in the Iliad,” for which he was awarded NYU’s Lane Cooper Fellowship for 2006-07. He also received the Advanced Certificate in Poetics and Theory. He has co-authored “Flight Club: The New Archilochus Fragment and its Resonance with Homeric Epic” (MD 57, 2006: 19-43) with E. T. E. Barker of Christ Church, Oxford. Forthcoming two articles: “Universality or Priority? The Rhetoric of Death in the Gilgamesh Poems and the Iliad” in a special issue of Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente dell’Università Ca' Foscari, E. Cingano and L. Milano (eds.), and “La ékfrasis homérica y la copa de Néstor,” Fernando Pérez (trans.), in Vértebra (Chile).
Email: jpc274@nyu.edu  

 

Panayotes Dakouras is teaching at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City. He graduated from NYU in 2006 with a dissertation on “Maecenas eques: A Study in the Creation and Development of an Image.”
Email: pdakouras@nightingale.org  

 

Valentina DeNardis has a tenure-track job at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She graduated from NYU in 2003 with a dissertation on “Ratio omnia uincit: Cosmological, Political, and Poetic Power in the Astronomica of Manilius.”
Email: valentina.denardis@sju.edu  

 

William Herbst teaches at the Bay Shore High School. He graduated from NYU in 2003 with a dissertation on “Fragmented Faces: Nose, Ear, and Eye Imagery in Roman Satire.”
Email: wherbst@bayshore.k12.ny.us  

 

Mary Knight is a free-lance science and medical writer who has written for the American Museum of Natural History and Natural History magazine. She graduated from NYU in 1998 with a dissertation on “A Geographic, Archaeological, and Scientific Commentary on Strabon’s Egypt (Geographica, Book 17, sections 1-2).”
Email: available upon request from nas1@nyu.edu  

 

Matthew McGowan has a tenure-track job at Fordham. He graduated from NYU in 2002 with a dissertation on “Religion, Law, and Politics in Ovid Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto.”
Email: mmcgowan@wooster.edu  

 

Sean Redmond is the Senior Systems Administrator of the Exhibitions Department for the Museum of Natural History, NYC. He graduated from NYU in 1998 with a dissertation on “Ovid’s Semiotic Invention in the Metamorphoses.”
Email: sean@jiffycomp.com  

 

Benjamin Sammons graduated in 2007 with a dissertation on "Homeric Catalogue:  Lists, Catalogues and Cataloguing in the Homeric Poems," for which he was awarded an NYU GSAS Dean's Dissertation award for 2005-06. He has published "Translations of Classical Works into English" in Classical World.  Email: bgs205@nyu.edu  

 

Osman Umurhan graduated in 2008 with a dissertation on "Representations of space and the satirist in Juvenal's Satires". He is currently a visiting professor at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

Stelios Vasilakis runs Greekworks.com. He graduated from NYU in 1998 with a dissertation on “Dinner and Symposium as Narrative Devices in Classical Greek and Latin Literature.”
Email: can be contacted through Greekworks.com.