Micaela W. Janan, Professor

• Latin Literature: Latin poetry
• Gender: gender and identity in antiquity
• Theory: new approaches to classics; psychoanalytic theory; feminist theory

Office Location:	233 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://duke.box.com/s/pcv7cpaf3ooy2ft2c7x2xjzh8q8stl8o

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• CLST 206.01, CLASSICS OF PAGE AND SCREEN Synopsis

  Allen 229, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• LATIN 764.01, SEMINAR IN LATIN LIT I (TOP) Synopsis

  Allen 229, WF 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

Office Hours:

By appointment only

Education:

Ph.D.	Princeton University	1988
B.A.	University of California, Santa Cruz	1979

Research Interests:

• Latin Literature: Latin poetry
• Gender: gender and identity in antiquity
• Theory: new approaches to classics; psychoanalytic theory; feminist theory

Keywords:

Employment • Feminist literary criticism • Greek Sexuality • Psychoanalysis and literature • Roman Sexuality

Representative Publications

1. Janan, M, Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses (February, 2010), pp. 1-288, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199556922 [doi]  [abs]
2. Janan, MW, The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV (2001), University of California Press
3. Janan, MW, "When the Lamp Is Shattered": Desire and Narrative in Catullus (1994), Southern Illinois University Press (named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1994 by Choice (January 1995 [32.5] 723).)