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Check out these photos from the 118th Annual CAMWS Meeting!  Click on each picture to make it bigger.  For more photos, check out our department social media pages.  All photos taken by Jess Martin with Red Cardinal Studio.

Congratulations to Professor Amy Lather!  Dr. Lather’s book Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry was recently published with Edinburgh University Press.  This book illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aesthetics. Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Dr. […]

  The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus was recently published and includes a chapter written by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad titled “Sinister Adaptation: Sensationalism and Violence Against Women in Anglo-American Cinema and Roman Drama.”  Check it out here: […]

  We are hiring a tenure-track professor with expertise in race, racism, and Greek & Roman studies this cycle.  Check out the link to the job ad here: https://wfu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty_Career_Website_live/job/Winston-Salem-NC/Assistant-Professor–Department-of-Classics_R0003713    

Check out these photos from Dr. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s Book Launch event for Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire held at Bookmarks Bookstore earlier this month!  This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius’ engagement with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad […]

At the start of this semester, we held a reception for the unveiling of three new portraits painted by local artist Leo Rucker that were recently installed in the hallway outside our Classics classrooms.  The subjects of the portraits are: Helen Maria Chesnutt, Charlotte Hawkins […]

  Check out these Old Gold & Black stories on three of our graduating seniors!  https://wfuogb.com/13037/graduation-tabloid-2021/anna-campbell-latin/ https://wfuogb.com/13094/graduation-tabloid-2021/will-lewis-classics/ https://wfuogb.com/13069/graduation-tabloid-2021/kelli-frangoulis-classical-languages/  

  Sinclair Bell (’95), who majored in Classical Studies and History, was named the 2021 Presidential Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University!  Read more about it here: https://www.niutoday.info/2021/04/14/sinclair-bell-named-2021-presidential-teaching-professor/?fbclid=IwAR13SDG7KoKgEPbDmNSKacrJz7oVmJM9zneNXtTowMFvCYddvtzzwuYfnoo   

  Check out this interview with Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad about Classics Beyond Whiteness that was recently published in Sententiae Antiquae!  https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/03/09/classics-beyond-whiteness-an-interview/