Sinja Küppers,

Sinja Küppers is a fourth-year PhD student. Her academic interests lie in Early Greek and Second Sophistic Literature. She is particularly interested in ancient scholarship, intellectual communities, and bringing material culture and literary sources into conversation. Sinja has worked on aspects of performance and audience in Greek archaic and Roman imperial time.

Sinja received a B.A. in Languages and Cultures from Antiquity (Antike Sprachen und Kulturen) from the University of Cologne and a MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. She worked with the Homeric Scholia from 2014-2016 as a research assistant to Prof. Nünlist at the University of Cologne. Sinja assisted in teaching Ancient Myth (2018), Ancient Athletics (2020), and Lyric & Hellenistic Poetry (2020) at Duke and is teaching Latin 101. 

Over her PhD, Sinja has developed DH projects for research and instruction. In 2018, Sinja explored as an intern at the National Humanities Center a story map on the Visual Reception of the Pygmalion Myth. As a Digital Lab Fellow in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Sinja used GIS visualize Mapping the Movement in the Second Sophistic Movement in 2019. During a Summer Archival Expeditions Internship in 2020, Sinja developed a module on Female Greek Lyric Poets on Papyri to teach in Greek 328S Hellenistic & Lyric Poets. 

Sinja is the founder of the Duke first-generation graduate student network Duke F1RSTS. More information about the organizational history here and events here. 

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Teaching (Spring 2021):

• LATIN 102.02, ELEMENTARY LATIN Synopsis

  Online ON, MWF 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as LATIN 552.02)

Office Hours:

On Zoom MWF 12:50–13:50 & upon request.