Stacie Raucci, assistant professor of classics, has completed a monograph titled “Elegiac Eyes: Vision in Roman Love Elegy,” to be published in Peter Lang’s “Classical Studies” series. The first book-length study of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy, “Elegiac Eyes” contextualizes the writings of poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid in the visual dynamics of ancient Roman society more generally.
Bonnie Cramer, Hillel director, was honored for 10 years of service by the Hillel Institute, a conference that brought together student activists, professionals and lay leaders from across the globe at Washington University recently. She engaged in a pre-conference intensive on Israel advocacy and combating the boycott, divestment, sanction movement and campus Apartheid Week.
Katherine Lynes, assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences in Portland, Ore. in June. Her paper was titled “You Can Ache the Need for River: Re-envisioning African American Ecopoetics.”
“Detour,” a film by Patty Richardson, campus safety officer, premiered to a private audience of cast and crew at Proctors GE Theater recently. The script, which chronicles the life of a New York City surgical resident and her impending abduction, was written, directed and filmed locally. Numerous students participated. Richardson is entering the film in numerous film festivals.
"Herod's Last Days," an article by Mark Toher, the Frank Bailey Professor of Classics, will appear in Volume 106 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. The article untangles the toxic intrigues that swirled at the court of Herod in 4 BCE, when the great king lay on his deathbed. Toher demonstrates that the historian Nicolaus of Damascus, a close advisor to Herod, played a major role in bringing about the execution of Herod’s son, Antipater, and in the revision of Herod’s will in favor of another son, Archelaus.