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Biography
I am a nerdy neophilologist working on the cryptology of a dystopian triumviral dialogue (Varro's de Rebus Rusticis) and, in general, how ancient Romans learned to speak in coded language when things got dangerous. I also research ancient advanced technologies, especially as we can recover knowledge of such through non-technical literature and material culture.
I am a dedicated public humanities communicator, because I know that humanists' greatest strengths lie in our ability to speak with others.
I have two monographs in progress: the first is Ex Machina: Stories of STEM in the Ancient World (a work for a non-specialist audience, under contract with Princeton University Press); the second is Varro's Dystopian Rome: Political Cryptography and the Shadow of the Triumvirate in the de Rebus Rusticis.
I am also the Program Director for Humanities First a First Year Experience at the UW that has been supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation for our first three years.
Research
Selected Research
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. "When I read my Cato, it is as if Cato speaks: The Evolution of Cicero’s Dialogic Voice." The Author’s Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity. Oxford: 2014.
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. “Without Patronage: Fetishization, Representation, and the Circulation of Gift-Texts in the Late Roman Republic.” The Gift in Antiquity. Wiley-Blackwell: 2013.
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons: The Generation of the Text. Cambridge: 2010.
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. "Making Memory: Ritual, Rhetoric, and Violence in the Imperial Roman Triumph.” Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition. Rowman & Littlefield: 2007.
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. "Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation.” A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Blackwell: 2006.
- Sarah Culpepper Stroup. "Invaluable Collections: the Illusion of Poetic Presence in Martial’s Xenia and Apophoreta" Flavian Poetry. Brill: 2005.
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
- Jessica Kapteyn. All Italy an Orchard: Landscape and the State in Varro’s de Re Rustica.
- Christina E. Franzen. Revulsion and Desire: the Figure of the Monster in the Roman Imperial Imagination. Diss., 2007.
- Marco J. Zangari. Cicero Fabricator: The Ethos of Aesthetics in Cicero's de Signis. Diss., 2005.
Research Advised: Undergraduate Senior Essays
Courses Taught
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Autumn 2021
Winter 2021
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Summer 2019 Full-term
Autumn 2018
Summer 2018 Full-term
Spring 2018
Autumn 2017
Summer 2017 B-term
Winter 2017
Autumn 2016
Summer 2016 B-term
Spring 2016
Winter 2016
Autumn 2015
Summer 2015 Full-term
Winter 2015
Autumn 2014
Summer 2014 Full-term
Spring 2014
Autumn 2013
Summer 2013 Full-term
Spring 2013
Autumn 2012
Summer 2012 Full-term
Spring 2012
Winter 2012
Autumn 2011
Summer 2011 Full-term
Additional Courses
HUM 101: Humanities First: Foundations (AU 2020)
HUM 102: Humanities First: Campus Connections (WI 2021, 2022)
HUM 103: Humanities First: Community Connections (SP 2021, 2022)
HUM 208: Humanities Next (AU, 2021; WI and SP 2022)
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Affiliations
News & Events
Related News
- Nespelem Middle-Schoolers Visit the UW! - April 26, 2023
- UW at SCS/AIA 2023! - December 19, 2022
- Humanities First Featured in Perspectives - September 22, 2021
- Prof. Stroup talks STEM (and more!) on KUOW - October 1, 2019
- Professor Stroup wins 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology - April 24, 2019
- UW at the SCS (2019)! - December 21, 2018
- Professor Stroup at sea! A modern Odyssey - August 29, 2018
- Exploring -- and Building -- Ancient Technology in Classics 314 - December 6, 2017
- UW Classics at the SCS/AIA! - December 1, 2017
- Professor Stroup helps host visiting students from Paschal Sherman Indian School - May 3, 2017
- 'War Games': Professor Stroup speaks on ancient and modern athletics at Parent and Family Weekend - April 2, 2017
- Updates from Professor Stroup's two week intensive Sport and Spectacle in Rome - March 16, 2016
Related Events
- UW Humanities First Career Panel - March 3, 2022 - 5:00pm
- 'Gladiators and Spectacular Violence in Ancient Rome' - March 15, 2015 - 12:30pm