Presentations

Select Public and Invited Lectures (2012-present)

  • “Ceu nova tunc clades: H Υψιπύλη του Στατίου και η Αρχαία Ελληνική Τραγωδία” Annual Ioannis Kampitsis Distinguished Lecture, University of Crete, Rethymno, November 26, 2024
  • “Citizenship Reimagined: Citizens and Foreigners in Flavian Epic Poetry (the case of Silius Italicus)” in Citizenship and Foreigners in Mediterranean Societies from Antiquity to Today, XI Symposium Reading, Watching, and Listening to the Past, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 7-11, 2024
  • “Ceu nova tunc clades: Statius’ Hypsipyle and Greek Tragedy” Keynote at Academy in Athens, Greek Tragedy and Flavian Epic Conference, Athens, Greece, September 21, 2024
  • “Death and Ritual on Lemnos: Hypsipyle in Flavian Epic” (Presidential Panel), Annual Meeting CAMWS, April 5, 2024, St. Louis, MO
  • “Death and Ritual in Statius’ Silvae,” J. Ward Jones Jr. Annual Lecture, William & Mary College, February 26, 2024
  • “Cultural Icons and Flavian Imperial Attitudes,” in Sicily in the Flavian World, Ortigia, Siracusa, October 6, 2023
  • “Cultural Icons and Flavian Imperial Attitudes,” in More Classical Constructions – A Conference to Celebrate Peta Fowler, Oxford University, September 28, 2023
  • “Death and Ritual in the Silvae,” Statius and the Politics of a Poetic Oeuvre Workshop, Newcastle University, March 10, 2023
  • “Homeric Sites in Silius Italicus’ Punica” (with R. J. Littlewood), Homer in Sicily, International Conference, Siracusa, Sicily, October 8, 2022
  • “Η Λίβια και άλλες γυναίκες στη σειρά DOMINA (2021),” University of Crete, Rethymnon, October 3, 2022
  • “The Rape Scene in Terence’s Eunuchus and its Reception in the Joseph Plays in the 16thCentury,” The Reception of Terence’s Eunuchus from Antiquity to the Modern Period, June 17, 2022, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK
  • “Livia and the Others in DOMINA (2021),” Annual Meeting, CAMWS 2022, March 2022, Winston-Salem, NC
  • “Visualising the laus gentis Flaviae in Silius Italicus’ Punica 3,” God on Earth: Emperor Domtiian, International Symposium, Leiden Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, January 20, 2022
  • “The Enduring Appeal of TROY: A Book Launch with Editors and Contributors of Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (Bloomsbury: January 2022),” AIMS (Antiquity in Media Studies) Virtual Conference, December 17, 2021
  • “Oι κλασικές σπουδές στον κόσμο/ Classical studies in the world,” Roundtable at Thessaloniki International Book Exhibit, November 27, 2021 (moderator Prof. A. Markantonatos)
  • “Ritual in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 8,” The Poetics of Release and Binding: Resolution and Constraint as Modes of Closure in Flavian Literature, Université de Genève, June 16, 2021
  • Response in Panel “The City of Rome: Real, Imagined, Created,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS 2021, April 10, 2021, Cleveland, OH
  • Response in Panel “Hybrid Epicenters: Peripheral Adaptations in Flavian Literature,” Annual Meeting (virtual), Society for Classical Studies, January 9, 2021, Chicago, IL (co-organizers Clayton Schroer and Angeliki Roumpou)
  • Concluding Remarks at AIMS (Antiquity in Media Studies) Virtual Conference, December 12, 2020
  • “Scenes of Death and Burial in Flavian Epic,” Lisbon Flavian Seminar, November 6, 2020
  • “Έκτορας και Αννίβας: Μια συγκριτική ματιά από τον Όμηρο στο Σίλιο Ιταλικό,” Τροφεία ΙΙ: Νέες προοπτικές στη μελέτη του Αρχαίου Ελληνικού και του Ρωμαϊκού Κόσμου. Διεθνές Συμπόσιο με επίκεντρο νέες μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις. December 12-15, 2019, Rethymno, Greece
  • “Scylla’s Lament in the Ciris and the (post-)Ovidian Latin Literary Tradition,” Annual Meeting, CA/FIEC, July 7, 2019, London, UK
  • “College Greek Exam: Past and Future” (with Mary Pendergraft), Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 6, 2019, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • “Introduction” in Organized Panel: “The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture,” Annual Meeting, Society for Classical Studies, January 2019, San Diego, CA (co-organizers Emma Buckley and Claire Stocks)
  • “Scylla’s Lament in the Ciris and the Latin Literary Tradition,” Authors and Readers in the Appendices, Trinity College, Oxford, September 5-7, 2018
  • “Death, Burial, and Ritual in Flavian Poetry,” Arthur Stocker Annual Lecture, University of Virginia, April 20, 2018
  • “Best Practices from an Editor’s Perspective,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 12, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • “Hannibal’s Journey,” Inaugural Libson Classics Seminar, University of Lisbon, March 19, 2018
  • “Hannibal’s Journey: A Literary Manipulation of Cultural Memory,” Epic and History International Conference, Florida State University, October 28, 2017, Tallahasee, FL
  • “The New Ben-Hur (2016) in a Changing World,” Illinois Classical Conference, October 7, 2017, Urbana, IL
  • “The New Ben-Hur (2016) in a Changing World,” Wabash College, September 18, 2017
  • “Death, Ritual, Burial in Flavian Poetry,” Middlebury College, May 5, 2017
  • “Ben-Hur (2016) in a Changing World?” Annual Meeting, CA, April 28, 2017, Canterbury, UK
  • “Death and Ritual in the Silvae,” Editing and Commenting on the Silvae, Workshop, Centre of Classical Studies, University of Lisbon, March 17, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
  • “Epicurean Postures in Silius’ Punica,” Philosophies of Flavian Literature, University of Toronto, March 4, 2017
  • “From (Mythological) Greece to (Imperial) Rome: Burying the Dead in Flavian Poetry,” University of Toronto, March 3, 2017
  • “Response in The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students,” Annual Meeting, SCS, January 6, 2017, Toronto, ON [Published in Nuntius 91.1 (Spring 2017) 12-14]
  • “From (Mythological) Greece to (Imperial) Rome: Burying the Dead in Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus,” University of Cincinnati, November 15, 2016
  • “Gods and the Divine in STARZ Spartacus” Film and History Conference, Milwaukee WI, October 28, 2016
  • “From (Mythological) Greece to (Imperial) Rome: Burying the Dead in Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus,” University of Missouri Columbia, April 22, 2016
  • “Who is Spartacus? Casting a New Spartacus in the STARZ Series,” Annual Meeting, CA, April 9, 2016, Edinburgh, UK
  • “haec pietas, haec fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius’ Thebaid,” Annual Meeting, SCS, January 8, 2016, San Francisco, CA
  • “From (Mythological) Greece to (Imperial) Rome: Burying the Dead in Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus,” Intertextuality in Valerius Flaccus, University College London, December 18, 2015
  • “Quaenam spes hominum? Dashed Hopes in Statius’ Thebaid,” The Emotion of Hope, Rethymnon, Greece, December 13, 2015
  • “Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Greek History in Theo Angelopoulos’ The Weeping Meadow(2004),” Film and History Conference, Madison WI, November 6, 2015
  • “haec pietas, haec fides: Permutations of Trust in Statius’ Thebaid,” Fides in Flavian Literature, Soeterbeek Ravenstein, Netherlands, June 6-8, 2015
  • “Collateral Damage? Todeskette in Flavian Epic,” Flint Epic: Flavian Epic Intertextuality, Fondation Hardt, Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-30, 2015
  • “Death, Burial, and Ritual in Latin Literature,” First Annual Symposium, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana, April 20, 2015
  • “Male Lament in Statius’ Thebaid,” Annual Meeting, SCS, January 11, 2015, New Orleans, LA
  • “Death, Burial and Ritual in Flavian Epic” Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, November 18, 2014
  • “Death, Burial and Ritual in Flavian Epic” Royal Holloway, University of London, November 12, 2014
  • “Dreaming Inconsistency: Ismene in Thebaid 8,” Unity and Inconsistency in Flavian Epic, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), September 4, 2014, Budapest, Hungary
  • “Civil War and Semblance of Burial in Flavian Epic,” Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, June 26, 2014
  • “Burial and Lament in Flavian Epic: Mothers, Fathers, Children,” Colloquium on Family in Flavian Epic, Andrews’ University, June 20, 2014
  • “Terence’s Comedies in the Terentius Christianus: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Cornelius Schonaeus,” 8th Trends in Classics International Conference, Roman Drama and its Contexts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, May 29, 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • “Greeks and Romans: Literature, Religion, and Culture,” Osaka City University, Japan, May 11, 2014
  • “The Representation of Ancient Women on Screen,” Osaka City University, Japan, May 10, 2014
  • Response to Ayana Saeki-Katakura, “The Byzantine Princess Anna Komnene’s critique of the Emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) in the Alexias” Osaka City University, Japan, May 10, 2014
  • “The Other on Screen in the 21st Century,” Annual Meeting, CA, April 15, 2014, Nottingham, UK
  • “The Other on Screen in the 21st Century,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 4, 2014, Waco, TX
  • “Terence and his World,” Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, March 26, 2014
  • “Editing Companions: From Roman Comedy to Flavian Epic,” Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 24, 2014
  • “Greeks and Romans: Literature, Religion, and Culture,” Hellenic Link-Midwest (HLM), February 16, 2014
  • “Burial Scenes: Silius and Greco-Roman Historiography,” Annual Meeting, APA, January 3, 2014, Chicago, IL
  • “Burial Scenes: Silius and Greco-Roman Historiography,” I generi letterari nell’età dei Flavi: Canoni, trasformazioni, ricezione, Torino Italy, September 19, 2013
  • “Partnership and Love in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011),” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 19, 2013, Iowa City, IA
  • “Burial Scenes: Silius and Greco-Roman Historiography,” Silius Italicus: Poetry and Historiography, Washington University St. Louis, March 23, 2013
  • “Recycling Hecuba,” Langford Latin Seminar, Florida State University, February 22, 2013
  • “Campanian Politics and Poetics in Silius Italicus’ Punica,” Annual Meeting, APA, January 4, 2013, Seattle, WA
  • “Women in the Ancient World, Athens and Rome,” Hellenic Link-Midwest (HLM), November 18, 2012
  • “Greek Myth, Roman History, and the Affirmation of Patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici,” Film and History Conference, Milwaukee WI, September 27-28, 2012
  • “Silius Italicus’ Punica in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae,” Flavian Epic and the World of Ideas, University of Warsaw, 24-25 May 2012
  • “Women in Flavian Epic,” Illinois Wesleyan University, January 18, 2012

Organized Conferences

  1. Illinois Graduate Workshop on Tacitus’ Hostories, October 27-28, 2023 (with Joe Baronovic and Brenden Hay)
  2. “Sicily in the Flavian World,” International Conference, Exedra Conference Centre, Syracuse, Sicily, October 3-6, 2023 (Organizers: Antony Augoustakis and Joy Littlewood) http://publish.illinois.edu/aaugoust/conferences/sicily-in-the-flavian-world/
  3. “The Damned Despot: Rethinking Domitian and the Flavian World,” International Conerence, Rome, 18-21 January 2023 (Organizers: Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, Nathalie de Haan, Eric Moormann, Aurora Raimondi, Claire Stocks) https://publish.illinois.edu/aaugoust/flavian-literature-and-its-world/
  4. NEH Workshop with Director C. Thornton, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, October 31-November 1, 2022 ( (Planning and Organizing)
  5. Eta Sigma Phi 94th Annual Convention, April 9, 2022
  6. “How Culture Moves,” Interdisciplinary International Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, October 29-30, 2021 (Associate Director, Planning and Organizing Committee)
  7. Annual Association Ancient Historians Meeting, Virtual, May 6-8, 2021, Urbana, IL (Chair of the Organizing Committee)
  8. “Τροφεία ΙΙ: Νέες προοπτικές στη μελέτη του Αρχαίου Ελληνικού και του Ρωμαϊκού Κόσμου. Διεθνές Συμπόσιο με επίκεντρο νέες μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις” December 12-15, 2019, Rethymno, Greece
  9. “Return to the Future: Silius Italicus’ Punica in the Tradition of Latin Historical Epic / Ritorno al future: I Punica di Silio Italico nella tradizione dell’epica storica romana,” International Conference, University of Udine, September 10-11, 2019 (Organizers: Antony Augoustakis (Illinois), Marco Fucecchi (Udine)
  10. “Domitian and the East,” International Conference, Anargirios and Korgialenios School of Spetses, Greece, June 30-July 2, 2019
  11. “Contested Authorships in Latin Literature and Beyond,” International Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 29-30, 2019 (Co-Organizers: Antony Augoustakis and Brian Walters)
  12. “Race Work and the Classics,” Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 22, 2019 (Co-Organizers: Antony Augoustakis and Clara Bosak-Schroeder)
  13. “Flavian Campania,” International Conference, Naples, Italy, September 16-19, 2015 (with Claudio Buongiovanni, Joy Littlewood, and Arianna Sacerdoti)
  14. “New Heroes on Screen,” International Conference, Cultural Centre at Delphi, Greece, June 29-July 1 2015 (with Stacie Raucci, Union College)
  15. “Flavian Literature and Its Greek Past,” International Conference, Cultural Centre at Delphi, Greece, July 5-7 2012
  16. “Reading Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic,” International Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 23-25 2010
  17. “Τροφεῖα, Επιστημονικό Συμπόσιο Αποφοίτων Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης, Τομέας Κλασικών Σπουδών,” May 23-25, 2008, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece (co-organized)

Organized Panels

  1. Organizer of Panel “famaeque dissimilis: Image Management, Perception, and Reality in Tacitus’ Histories,” Annual Meeting, Society for Classical Studies, January 2023, Chicago, IL (co-organizer Nicholas Rudman)
  2. Organizer of Presidential Panel: “DOMINA Pro Domina: A Presidential Panel in Honor of Hunter Gardner,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, March 2022, Winston-Salem, NC
  3. Organizer of Panel: “Female Protagonists in Troy: Fall of a City(2018),” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 2019, Lincoln, Nebraska
  4. Organizer of Panel: “The Writing on the Wall: The Intersection of Flavian Literary and Material Culture,” Annual Meeting, Society for Classical Studies, January 2019, San Diego, CA (co-organizers Emma Buckley and Claire Stocks)
  5. Organizer of Roundtable Discussion: “Meeting with the Editor,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 2017, Kitchener, ON
  6. Organizer of Panel “Fides in Flavian Poetry,” Annual Meeting, Society for Classical Studies, January 2016, San Francisco, CA (co-organizer Claire Stocks)
  7. Organizer of Panel “New Directions in Onscreen Receptions,” Annual Meeting, Classical Association, April 2014, Nottingham, UK
  8. Organizer of Panel “New Directions in Cinematic Receptions,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 2014, Waco, TX
  9. Organizer of Panel “The Transition to Empire in HBO-BBC’s ROME, Season Two,” Annual Meeting, Classical Association, April 2010, Cardiff, UK
  10. Organizer of Panel “Carmen Solutum: Interactions of Poetry and History in Flavian Literature,” Annual Meeting, Classical Association, March 2008, Liverpool UK (co-organizer Eleni Manolaraki)
  11. Organizer of Panel “Between Myth and History: Flavian Epic and Imperial Culture,” Annual Meeting, CAMWS, April 17, 2004, St. Louis, MO
  12. Organizer of Panel “Cultural Constructions in Flavian Poetics,” Annual Meeting, APA, January 5, 2004, San Francisco, CA