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Micaela W. Janan, Associate Professor, Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	230 Allen Building
Office Phone:	(919) 328-0791
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• CLST 204.01, ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL EPIC Synopsis

  Allen 326, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as MEDREN 303.01)

• LATIN 324S.01, LATIN EPIC Synopsis

  Allen 318, WF 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• 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:

TTH 2:30-3:30p

Education:

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

Research Interests:

• Latin Literature: Latin poetry; Livy; Cicero
• Greek Literature: Homer
• Comparative literature: epic; film
• Gender: gender and identity in antiquity
• Theory: new approaches to classics; psychoanalytic theory; feminist theory

Keywords:

Europe • Greece • Italy • Classics • Comparative Literature • Epic • Film • Gender • Psychoanalysis • Feminism

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More 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).)