Ellen Lee is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Language Programs Coordinator in the Classics department at the University of Pittsburgh. After attending the University of Texas at Austin, where she discovered her love for the Latin language, she earned her Ph.D. in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan in 2016 with a dissertation on Latin love poetry. Her teaching and research focus on cognitive studies and gender & sexuality within Latin literature and its receptions. Her pedagogical interests include equity pedagogy and digital pedagogies for language learning, and she’s particularly invested in advocacy for first generation college students.
Many people have had a hand in creating this resource! Find more information about our contributors below and about our special topic module creators on their module pages, linked below.
Alex-Jaden Peart is an MPhil Candidate in Classics at the University of Cambridge as the Society for Classical Studies’ 2024-2025 Lionel Pearson Fellow, having earned a BPhil from the Department of Classics and David C. Frederick Honors College and a BA from the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. His BPhil thesis, “Affective Entanglements: Shifting Attitudes Toward the Ancient Greek Body,” studied articulations of the body, affect, and embodiment across epic, philosophy, medical writing, and tragedy from the archaic and classical Greek world. His research interests include ancient philosophy, environmental humanities, history and philosophy of science, medicine, and the life-sciences, critical reception studies (particularly in the Black Atlantic), Lucretius, Ovid, and pedagogy.
Alex-Jaden Peart developed the Annotated Bibliography and workshopped supplemental materials, as the recipient of a Spring 2024 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship from the David C. Frederick Honors College.
Sarah C. Street is an Instructor in the English department at New York University. She earned her Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Classical Languages and English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College, before earning her MA in English Literature from New York University. Her MA thesis, “A Piercing Gaze: Medieval Theories of Perception and Troilus’s Male Gaze in Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde” explored the interplay between sight, gender, and personal agency throughout the work’s “visual narrative”. She has since continued to pursue this thread through other medieval and classical works, including Dante’s Commedia and Apuleius’s tale of Cupid & Psyche. Other research interests include fantasy literature (particularly J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium), monster theory, medieval science fiction, and liminal spaces & beings.
Adapted versions of Sarah C. Street's Latin compositions, Ariadna & Minotaurus, Ariadna Relicta, and Cupido & Psyche are included in this book.
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (University of Pittsburgh), A Curse Against Thieves!
Joshua Cannon (University of Pittsburgh), Lapis Niger: An Ancient Roman Shrine
Javal Coleman (University of Texas at Austin), Acte and Roman Manumission
Nadhira Hill (Randolph-Macon College), Private Dining in Ancient Rome
Andrew Korzeniewski (University of Pittsburgh), Neo-Latin
Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University), What is Gender? Grammatical Gender AND Gender as Part of Identity
Zoé Elise Thomas (University of Texas at Austin), Dem Bones: Roman Knowledge of the Human Skeleton
Support for this project has been provided by the following:
an Open Educational Resource grant from the Office of the Provost at the University of Pittsburgh
a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship from the David C. Frederick Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has had a hand in the creation of this open-access resource! In addition to all those above, special thanks go out to:
Dr. Amy Pistone, for editing, workshopping, and more, even though it's Latin;
Dr. Marcie Persyn, Dr. Andrew Korzeniewski, and Dr. Grace Funsten, my beginning Latin co-instructors, for your collaborative spirit;
Dr. Evan Lee, for your support, on and off the field;
Donna Lee, for being the very best kid;
and the students of my beginning Latin classes, for your continued patience and willingness to experiment with me.
Grātiās vōbīs agō!