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Jay Reed is a scholar of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture at Brown University, and has worked especially on Hellenistic and Augustan poetry. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1987, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford in 1991 and 1993. He previously taught Classics at the Ohio State Un...

Janet Varney is an Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. She is perhaps best known for her iconic voice role of Avatar Korra on Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra” but she can also be seen portraying Becca on FX’s “You’re the Worst”, Evie IFC’s “Stan Against Evil”, or herself on her s...

Clifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor. He holds a dual appointment as a professor in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the histories of religion, law and government in the ancient world. He writes ...

Radcliffe Edmonds is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His research interests focus on Greek social and intellectual history, with a particular focus of mythology, magic, religion, and Platonic philosophy. He h...

Kathleen Coleman is the James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. She is originally from Zimbabwe. Before coming to Harvard, she taught at the University of Cape Town and Trinity College Dublin. Her specialties include: Latin literature under the Flavian emperors and Trajan; Roman ...

Grey DeLisle Griffin is a voice actress, comedian, and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. She is one of the most prolific voice actresses in American animation history, having starred in over 1500 animated series and video games. She is best-known for her iconic voice roles of “Vicky” in Nickelodeon’...

Christian Casey is the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Humanities at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – NYU. His research focuses on the use of digital tools to expand our understanding of the pronunciation of the Egyptian language. His work includes numerous digital projects for...

Christine Reyna received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently a Professor of Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago. She is the founder of the Social and Intergroup Perceptions Lab focusing on the study of stereotypes, prejudice, and grou...

Aristotle Koskinas earned a degree in Classical Archaeology from the University of Ioannina, Greece and specialized in the study of roof tiles and architectural terracottas. He previously participated in excavations under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture, including the surface survey pr...

David Schenker has been at the University of Missouri since 1991, teaching just about every Greek course on the books, and a few of the Latin ones. He previously served as department chair for 9 years and he is currently the director of undergraduate studies. His research interests have shifted rece...

Dr. Jordi Alonso has an AB from Kenyon College, an MFA from Stony Brook University and is a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow at the University of Missouri, where he is a Ph.D candidate studying Greek and the cultural translation of nymphs in anglophone literature. He is the author of Honeyvoiced, and The Lovers...