Classics

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James J. Clauss
Professor of Classics, Adjunct in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Cinema and Media Studies, Global Literary Studies
Alexander Hollmann
Associate Professor of Classics
Chair of Classics
Valeria Riedemann Lorca
Lecturer Part-Time
Affiliate Instructor
Michael Ritter
Lecturer Part-time

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Classics at the UW World Language Fair (September 25, 2025)
An Open Letter from the AY19-20 Lederman Endowed Scholarship Recipient (December 19, 2019)

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Related Research

Sofia Van Beek. “‘Vast, Ordered, and Mighty’: Rhetoric and Representation of the Ara Pacis from Augustan Rome to Mussolini’s Italy” Honors Thesis, 2026.
Stephen E. Hinds. Latin Poetry Across Languages: Adventures in Allusion, Translation and Classical Tradition. Cambridge: CUP, 2026
Alain M. Gowing, "'Tangled, chaotic and hideous'" the triumviral proscriptions in Roman memory," in a volume of proceedings from a conference on 'Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire", J. Uden and Z. Verhelyi, edd. (forthcoming OUP 2026)
James J. Clauss, "'With No Direction Home:' Medea and Jason," in R. Scodel (ed.) A Companion to the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes. University of Michigan Press 2025: 17-29.
Stephen E. Hinds. "Bann Valley Eclogues", in Antony Augoustakis, Stavros Frangoulidis and Thea S. Thorsen (eds.), Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception, Trends in Classics Suppl. vol. 176 (De Gruyter) 2025, 397-412
Stephen E. Hinds. "Disruptores do verso latino na Antiguidade Tardia: Proba como (não)Ausônio", Calíope: Presença Clássica 47(2024) [publ. 2025], 210-31
Robert W. Daniel and Alexander Hollmann, Magica Levantina. Brill-Schöningh, 2025.
Alain M. Gowing, "'Forgetful emperors’: Vergessen as Julio-Claudian political strategy? "In Forgetting and Power, V. Schulz and C. Pieper, edd., pp. 251-66. Palingenesia (Stuttgart 2025)
Alain M. Gowing, "Annals 13. Mentors, Murder, Mother, and Mayhem," in Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus, S. Bartera and K.E. Shannon-Henderson, edd., pp. 188-99. Oxford 2025.
Eco Zhang, Leukos in Homeric Epics. Senior essay.

Classics

James J. Clauss

Alexander Hollmann

Valeria Riedemann Lorca

Michael Ritter

TBD (Harmon Lecture)