Lauren Ginsberg, Associate Professor

Pronouns: She/Her.

Latin literature with a special focus on the early empire; Roman drama; epic; historical poetry; historiography; theories of cultural and social memory; intertextuality; the age of Nero and its reception; civil war, its narratives, metaphors, and symbol systems.

Director of Graduate Studies for Classical Studies.

Office Location:
Office Phone:	(919) 681-4292
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Teaching (Spring 2024):

• CLST 222.01, THE AGE OF NERO Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 126, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 241.01)

• LATIN 302S.01, THE CATILINARIAN CONSPIRACY Synopsis

  Perkins 070, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• CLST 202.01, THE ROMANS Synopsis

  TBA, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Office Hours:

Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3:30 over zoom (contact for meeting ID) or in person. Also available by appointment (email).

Education:

Ph.D.

Brown University

2011

Recent Publications

1. Ginsberg, LD, Great expectations: Wordplay as warfare in caesar's bellvm civile, Classical Quarterly, vol. 73 no. 1 (May, 2023), pp. 184-197 [doi]  [abs]
2. Ginsberg, LD, Nero-Antichrist: The Founding and Fashioning of a Paradigm by Shushma Malik, Classical Journal, vol. 117 no. 3 (2022), pp. 369-371, Project MUSE [doi]
3. Ginsberg, LD, Allusive Prodigia: Caesar's Comets in Neronian Rome (Tac. Ann. 15.47), TAPA, vol. 150 no. 1 (2020), pp. 231-249, Project MUSE [doi]
4. Ginsberg, L, “The Failure of Female Fides in the Octavia” in Fides in Flavian Literature (A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley, and C. Stocks, eds). Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 56. (2019)
5. Ginsberg, LD; Krasne, DA, After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome (December, 2018), pp. 499 pages, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, ISBN 9783110584745  [abs]