Alumnx profile: Cathy Callaway (PhD '90)

Submitted by Deborah E Kamen on

Dr. Cathy Callaway (BA University of Wisconsin 1978, MA University of Missouri 1982, PhD University of Washington, The Oath in Epic Poetry, 1990) recently retired from her position as Museum Educator at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, which she held from 2006-2022; she had been editor of the Museum’s journal Muse since 2018. In addition to her recent publications “Reverse Ekphrasis: The Visual Poetics of Nancy Morejón’s Amo mi a Amo” (Afro-Hispanic Review 36 [2017] 50-59) and “The Funerary Stele of Heliodora, Astrologer,” with Roger S. Bagnall and Alexander Jones (Muse 53-54 [2019-2020] 28-45), she coedited and contributed a paper (“Material Culture Telling the Stories”) to a collection of essays entitled Homer in Sicily (Parnassus Press, 2023), which is available as an open-access publication on-line at https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11660129. Congratulations, Cathy, on a distinguished career!

By James J. Clauss

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