Join Elena Giusti for a 1.5–2 hour discussion with graduate students exploring critical topics in Classics. This session will cover the study of race in Graeco-Roman antiquity, including its historical and modern interpretations, and offer insights into the process of editing a collaborative companion volume. Graduate students will have the opportunity to engage directly with the scholarship, ask questions, and discuss methodological and editorial challenges in this emerging field.
About the Speaker
Professor Elena Giusti specializes in Roman literature, especially Augustan poetry and Virgil, combining philology with postcolonial, feminist, and ideological critique. Her monograph on Carthage in the Aeneid highlights the poem’s role in shaping Roman identity and encoding war memory. Her current work includes a commentary on Aeneid 5 and a study of Dido. A second monograph examines Roman representations of Africa under Augustus and Nero, tracing early constructions of race and alterity. She also researches textual absence and conspiracy, and collaborates widely on Classics, race, and gender.