Antonella Anedda
Antonella Anedda is an Italian poet and essayist, whose literary work is often inspired by art. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, and in 2019 she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne University. Currently a lecturer at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, she is the author of more than fourteen books and the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Viareggio-Repaci Prize, the Pushkin Prize, and the 2024 Umberto Saba-Poesia Prize. Her last book, Tutte le poesie (Garzanti, 2023), is a complete collection of her poems.
Claudia Bernardi
Claudia Bernardi received her Ph.D. in Contemporary Italian Literature from the University of Bath, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a specialist of contemporary women’s writing, particularly Ballestra, Campo, and Santacroce. These present-day writers focus on the Italian and European socio-political landscape, with emphasis on women’s cultural roles, LGBTQ identity, and, more recently, the impact of the #MeToo movement.
Jessica Blum-Sorensen
Jessica Blum-Sorensen received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Classical Studies at the University of San Francisco. She specializes in imperial Latin poetry and the epic tradition, and is co-editor of the volume The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature. Her first monograph, Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (Wisconsin, 2023), examines the intersection of Roman social discourses and the epic tradition in the tumultuous political world of Flavian Rome.
Patrizio Ceccagnoli
Patrizio Ceccagnoli is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. He is a literary critic and translator, as well as the managing editor of Italian Poetry Review. He was a finalist for the American Literary Translator’s Association Annual Award for his work co-translating Milo de Angelis, and translated five books by the Canadian writer Anne Carson. With Susan Stewart, he recently translated Antonella Anedda’s Historiae (NYRB, 2023).
Christine Checinska
Christine Checinska is the V&A’s inaugural Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Lead Curator of the Africa Fashion exhibition, 2nd July 2022 – 16th April 2023. Prior to joining the V&A, Christine worked as a womenswear designer, academic, artist, and curator. Her creative practice and research explore the relationship between fashion, culture, and race.
Sandrine Colard
Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University, and associate curator at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (2016), and she is a historian of African, modern, and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally and supported by grants from the Musee du Quai Branly, the lnstitut National d’Histoire de l’Art, the Ford Foundation and by the Getty/ACLS for his book project on the history of photography in the colonial Congo.
Monica de Miranda
Monica de Miranda is a Portuguese/Angolan visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher known for her interdisciplinary approach. Her work explores the intersections of politics, gender, memory, space, and history, employing drawing, installation, photography, film, and sound. Her art has been showcased at renowned international events including the Lubumbashi Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Dakar Biennial, Casablanca Biennale, Bamako Encounters, Venice Architecture Biennale, BIENALSUR, and Houston FotoFest.
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh has a background in photography. She combines research, conversational, image and (meta)archival practices to reflect on the agency of photographs and notions of collectivity and power. One of her long-term projects explores the impossibilities of representation, through a negotiation process around a potential digital archive assembled in collaboration with inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon. In 2018, she received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has been a member of the Arab Image Foundation since 2008. For her collaboration with Rozenn Quéré, Vies possibles et imaginaires (Editions Photosynthèses, Arles, France, 2012), she received the 8th Vevey International Photography Award in 2011, and the Arles Discovery Award in 2013. She was a 2018/2019 fellow at BAK, Utrecht.
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Lille. She is the author of Mythe et Poésie dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide (1995), Mythologie et littérature à Rome (1998), Rome, l’Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes: Essai sur la naissance d’une mythologie des origines en Occident (2008), and co-editor of Women and War in Antiquity (2015), Lire les mythes: Formes, usages et visées des pratiques mythographiques de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance (2016), Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (2021). She has published many articles on Augustan poetry, mythology and mythography, and gender studies. She is co-director of the online journals Dictynna, Eugesta, and Polymnia, and of the series “Mythographes” (Presses du Septentrion).
Laurel Fulkerson
Laurel Fulkerson was a faculty member in the Classics department at the Florida State University in Tallahassee until her retirement in 2022. Her scholarly work focuses on three basic areas: Latin poetry; ancient women’s history and gender studies; and the emotions in antiquity. She has written the following books: The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (2005, CUP); No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity (2013, OUP); Ovid: A Poet on the Margins (2016, Bloomsbury); and A Literary Commentary on the Elegies of the Appendix Tibulliana (2017, OUP). She edited The Classical Journal from 2010 to 2016, and has won graduate and undergraduate teaching awards at national and University levels.
Caitlin Gillespie
Caitlin Gillespie received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. Her research explores the relationship between exemplarity, gender, memory, and power in representations of women of the early Roman Empire. She is the author of the monograph Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain. In addition, she has published several articles on famous women from Greek and Roman myth and history, such as Medea, Livia, Agrippina, and Poppaea.
Adalgisa Giorgio
Adalgisa Giorgio holds a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Italian in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath. Her primary research interests focus on Italian women’s writing, especially 20th and 21st centuries. She has done extensive work on Ramondino, Castaldi, and Ferrante. Among her numerous publications, she has edited a volume on motherhood in Western European narratives by women. She founded the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing in London, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Romance Studies and Italian Culture.
Judith P. Hallett
Judith P. Hallett, Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. She has published widely in the areas of Latin language and literature; women, the family and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity; and the study and reception of Classics in the Anglophone world. A former Blegen Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics at Vassar College and Suzanne Deal Booth Resident Scholar at the Center for Intercollegiate Studies in Rome, she has also held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A 2013 collection of essays from Routledge—Domina Illustris: Latin Literature, Gender, and Reception, edited by Donald Lateiner, Barbara Gold, and Judith Perkins—celebrates her academic career.
Erin M. Hanses
Erin M. Hanses received her Ph.D. in Classics from Fordham University in 2018. She is Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She specializes in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, and her primary research looks at responses to Lucretius in Roman love elegy, as well as elegiac engagement with the Epicureanism of both Lucretius and his Greek language contemporary Philodemus. Other research interests include questions of gender and identity in ancient Greece and Rome, and the intersection between medical and literary descriptions of pleasure in classical literature.
Sasha Huber
Sasha Huber is a Helsinki-based internationally recognized visual artist-researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Huber’s work is concerned with the politics of memory and belonging in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions, video, photography, and collaborations.
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal is a Palestinian foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, with dual Israeli and Italian citizenship. She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, and has published Il cambiamento che meritiamo (2021), a non-fiction study that analyzes the evolution and current state of women’s rights on both sides of the Atlantic.
Alison Keith
Alison Keith received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She teaches Classics and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto and holds cross-appointment in Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies. She has written extensively about the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature and Roman society. She has authored books on Ovid, Latin epic, Propertius, and Vergil, and edited or co-edited volumes on Ovidian reception, Roman dress, women and war in antiquity, Roman literary cultures, motherhood in antiquity, and Vergil and elegy. A past editor of Phoenix and past President of both the Classical Association of Canada and the Ontario Classical Association, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She directs the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.
Jacqueline Klooster
Jacqueline Klooster received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, and is currently Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Groningen. Her scholarly interests focus on Hellenistic poetry, leadership value in the ancient world, and women writers of ancient Greece and Rome. In 2019 she published an introduction to Classical literature. She coedited two volumes, titled After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Greek Literature and Beyond (Brill, 2022). She is the author of several articles and book chapters on a number of different authors, such as Sappho, Euripides, Erynna, Anyte, Nossis, Theoritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes.
Nina MacLaughlin
Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (2019), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Winter Solstice (2023) and Summer Solstice (2020). Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (2015), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Meatpaper, and elsewhere.
Michela Marzano
Michela Marzano studied Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and specialized in analytical philosophy and Bioethics at Sapienza University in Rome. In 2000 she traveled to France, and enrolled at the French National Center for Scientific Research. In 2010 she became Professor of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Paris Descartes University. Her specialty is in ethics and political philosophy, and focuses primarily on the space that human beings occupy today, especially as Carnal beings. Her analysis looks at human fragility. She is also a former member of the Italian Parliament for the Democratic Party.
Sarah McCallum
Sarah McCallum received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman language and literature, particularly epic, elegiac, and pastoral poetry. She is especially interested in the complex negotiation between tradition and innovation that characterizes the development of Roman poetry in the first century BCE. She co-edited the volume Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Myth and Culture, and has published articles on Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.
Carol U. Merriam
Carol U. Merriam holds a Ph.D. in Classics from The Ohio State University. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at Brock University, and serving a second five year term as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock. Her research interests are firmly fixed in Latin language and literature, and she focus specifically on elegy, epyllion, and ecphrasis. She is the author of two monographs, The Development of the Epyllion Genre Through the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2001) and Love and Propaganda: Augustan Venus and the Latin Love Elegists (2006), and has published several articles on Gallus, Sulpicia, Tibullus, Propertius, Vergil, and Horace.
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller earned her B.A. and M.A. in Classics from Brown University. She also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. Her first novel, The Song of Achilles (2011), was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction Her second novel, Circe (2018), was an instant number 1 New York Times bestseller, and has been widely praised, from NPR to People Magazine to the Washington post.
Kristina Milnor
Kristina Milnor is Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus (OUP, 2006; winner of the Goodwin Award for Excellence from the American Philological Association) and Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii (OUP, 2014). She has also written articles on Plautus, Sulpicia, Livy, and Barbie (TM). She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled The Gendered Lives of Roman Money.
Elia Moutamid
Elia Moutamid is an award-winning director and actor. His 3-minute short film Gaiwan (2015) was shortlisted at more than 75 international film festivals, including Cannes 68 in the Short Film Corner Section, and was awarded more than thirty awards and recognitions. His first feature film, Talien, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Turin Film Festival (2017) and a special mention as best debut director for the Nastri d’Argento (2018). More recently, his film Kufid was shortlisted as “Best Documentary” at the Turin Film Festival, the Film Festival Cinema Africa Asia America Latina in Milan, and the Nastri d’Argento (2021). In 2023 he directed Maka, a documentary about Geneviève Makaping, a Cameroonian-Italian anthropologist and writer, and the first Black woman to be named the director of a newspaper in Italy.
K. Sara Myers
K. Sara Myers received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She taught at Princeton for one year, and at the University of Michigan for six years, before joining the University of Virginia in 1997, where she is currently serving as Professor of Classics. She is the author of Ovid’s Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the ‘Metamorphoses’ (Michigan, 1994), a commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 14 (CUP, 2009), and articles on Ovid, Roman Elegy, Roman gardens, and Statius. Her current research interests include ancient garden literature, gender, and the poetics of commencement.
Zohra Opoku
Zohra Opoku is a German and Ghanaian artist who lives and works in Accra, Ghana. She examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Opoku’s explorations have been mostly through the lens of her camera; her photography is expressed through screen-printing and alternative photo processing on varieties of natural fabrics. In 2023, she is among the artists exhibited in the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennale “Thinking Historically in the Present” (United Arab Emirates).
Jennifer Saint
Jennifer Saint is a Sunday Times bestselling author. After thirteen years as a high school English teacher, she wrote Ariadne (2021), which tells the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur from the perspective of Ariadne, the woman who made it happen. This novel was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2021, and was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards Fantasy category in 2021. Her second novel, Elektra (2022), explores the curse upon the House of Atreus, giving voice to three women who are caught up in its shadows: Clytemnestra, Cassandra, and Elektra. In her third novel, Atalanta (2023), she reimagines the story of Atalanta, the fierce huntress raised by bears, and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts.
Eva Werner
Eva Werner studied Classics, Archaeology, and Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Salerno. In 2015 she started to work on her Ph.D. dissertation about Corpus Tibullianum 3.8-18, which was published in 2022 with Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Erzählen der Macht - Macht des Erzählens: Eine Analyse der sog. Sulpicia-Elegien). Her main research interests are gender studies, history of Classics, and cultural studies. Since 2018, she has been working in the President’s Office of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Billie Zangewa
Billie Zangewa is a half-Malawian, half-South African artist based in Johannesburg. She hand sews silk fabrics to create collage tapestries. Since 2004, her art has featured in international exhibitions including at the Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Zangewa’s work is autobiographical and centralizes Black femininity and everyday domesticity and motherhood. Her artistic approach is indicative of the artist’s expressing resistance to the oppression she faces through self-love.
Laura Zientek
Laura Zientek received her Ph.D. from Washington University, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Reed College. Her research mainly focuses on Latin epic poetry, natural philosophy, and ecocriticism. She co-edited the volume Lucan’s Imperial World: The Bellum civile in Its Contemporary Contexts, and has published articles on the auditory sublime, mining and morality, aesthetic and agricultural landscapes in Lucan.