Graduate Students
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Gabriel Anderson Gabe Anderson is a third-year graduate student at The University of Iowa, in the Ph.D. program in Classics. He earned his B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. While there, he tutored Latin and Greek. He is still broadly interested in the whole realm of classical study, but is particularly fond of Greek mythology, which he has been studying since a very young age. Other hobbies and interests include sports, film, and cooking. |
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Stefanie Bewell
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Life Blumberg Life Blumberg is a fifth-year Classics graduate student. Prior to coming here to work on her Ph.D., she got her B.A. in Classical Theatre at Berea College, and her M.A. in Classics at the University of Kentucky. Her interests are in the Archaic period, early Greek philosophy, and tragedy both Greek and Roman. She is currently working on her dissertation on magic and rhetoric from Apuleius to Libanius. In whimsical moments she also does work in the Classical tradition. Her outside interests are in Hebrew, western films, and cooking. |
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Aaron Burns Aaron Burns is a second-year Classics graduate student. He received his B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL and majored in Classics and English with a minor in Philosophy. His interests include Aristophanes (particularly Clouds), Greek tragedy, and ancient philosophy. Other interests include philosophy of language, vegetarian cooking and all things Irish. |
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Billie Cotterman Billie Cotterman is a third-year graduate student at The University of Iowa. She received her B.A. from Florida State University, majoring in Latin and minoring in secondary education, and her M.A. from the University of Florida, also majoring in Latin. In addition to teaching Latin and English undergraduate courses, she also taught Latin 1-IB in a Florida public high school. Her areas of interest are Silver Age Latin, Pliny the Younger and Elder, and Greek and Latin epistolography. |
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Vanessa Espinosa Vanessa Espinosa is a second-year graduate student. She received her B.A. in Latin from Creighton University, whence she comes intimidated by the monstrous size of U of I. She enjoys reading Latin from all periods and teaching to all ages, elementary to undergrad. When she is not hard at work on Latin or Greek, she knits, draws, and listens to endless hours of obscure music. |
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Tracy Harkins Tracy Harkins is a first year graduate student in the Ph. D. program. She earned her B.A. in Classics from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Her interests include ancient philosophy, Cicero, Vergil, Catullus, Ovid, and the classical tradition. Outside the Classics, she enjoys (among other things) science and fantasy fiction, anime, and rock from the Who to the Beatles (and beyond). |
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Kyle Helms Kyle Helms is a second-year graduate student from High Springs, Florida. He received his B.A. in classics and philosophy from the University of Florida. |
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Matthew Horrell Matt Horrell is a first-year graduate student in Classics. He got his B.A. in Classics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His favorite classical authors are Homer, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Ovid. He enjoys both the finer and less fine things in life, including film (particularly arthouse, horror, and b-movies) and philosophy. |
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Jacqueline Jones Jacqueline is a third-year graduate student from Des Moines, and is thus a die-hard Hawkeye. She has her B.A. in English and Classics from Truman State University, and owes her interest in the Classics to the wonderful professors there who first showed her how passionate someone can be about Latin and Greek. In addition to her teaching duties, she is working as an editorial assistant on the department's annual journal, Syllecta Classica. Her favorite classical author is Ovid. |
Maria LaFary Maria is a second-year graduate student. She hails from a tiny liberal arts college, named Hanover College, where she received her BA. Her interests include Euripidean tragedy, gender study, and the dialogue between society and mythology. When not “doing classics,” Maria likes to solve logic puzzles, play card games on the computer, read Dostoevsky, and make sun-catchers. |
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Josh Langseth 213 Jefferson Building 335-0618 joshua-langseth@uiowa.edu Josh Langseth is a sixth-year PhD candidate. He received his undergraduate degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, majoring in Latin and Religious Studies, and minoring in Greek. He worked for three years as an editorial assistant on Syllecta Classica. His areas of interest include: Greek religion, Roman religion, Mystery Cults, Hermetism, Patristics, Epic, Historians, and Classical Archaeology. Outside interests include Hebrew, Coptic, Biblical Studies, Modern Greek history and politics, early Crusading period, and contemporary American religion (particularly Evangelical Christianity, Neo-Paganism, Scientology, and Mormonism). He would very much like to know what your favorite movie is, and why. |
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Stephanie Norris Stephanie Norris is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the English Literature department who is simultaneously pursuing a M.A. in Latin. She received her B.A. in English and History from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans in the year 2006. Currently, Stephanie is also a teacher in the General Education Literature Department. Her interests lie in the literature of the Middle Ages, as she engages with themes of transformation and metamorphoses within such texts! |
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Jason Osborne Jason Osborne is a fourth-year student at The University of Iowa. He received his B.A. in history from Campbell University and his M.A. in ancient history from East Carolina University. |
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Christian Preus Christian is a fourth-year student at The University of Iowa. He |
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Sharada Price Sharada Price is a fourth-year student at The University of Iowa. She has an M.A. in Classics from Texas Tech University and a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently a T.A. for Hero, God, and Mortal and works as the lead editorial assistant for Syllecta Classica. Her classical interests include Lucian and the late Roman Republic. Outside of school, she enjoys rock climbing, running, and Shito-ryu Karate. |
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Thomas Rose Thomas Rose is a third-year graduate student from Greenville, North Carolina. He received a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in history from East Carolina University. In addition to teaching, he works as an editorial assistant for Syllecta Classica. In his spare time he enjoys running, cycling. and rock climbing. |
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Ryan Seaberg Ryan is a second-year graduate student. |
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Lindsay Samson Lindsay is a 6th year graduate student here at Iowa. She received her BA in Classical Languages and Literature from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta Georgia. She worked as an assistant editor for Syllecta Classica for three years. Her interests include Hellenistic poetry (in particular Theocritus), Archaic lyric poetry, Roman religion, and Roman poetry. Lindsay is currently working on her dissertation. |
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Mark Thorne Mark is in his 10th (gasp!) year of graduate school and in the final stages of writing his dissertation which explores the poet Lucan's portrayal of Cato, focusing on how his presence illuminates the epic's larger themes of the subversion of victory and the role of memory in a world of civil war. He recently accepted a Classics position at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he enjoys sharing his love of Greek and Latin literature with his students. Some other areas of academic interest include ancient epic in general, Greek and Latin historiography, ancient religion, epigraphy, and hymnic literature. Someday he would love to figure out exactly what is going on in Horace's Epistles Book 2, do a whirlwind tour to all the locations in Lucan's Bellum Civile, and write a study on the Appendix Vergiliana. |
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