Johanna Kaiser

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Lecturer in Classical Studies

Education:

  • PhD, Classics, University of Pennsylvania, 2022
  • MA, Classics, University of Pennsylvania, 2018
  • BA, Classics and Art History, University of Heidelberg (Germany), 2016

Research and teaching interests:

  • Latin literature
  • Gender studies, ancient emotions and sense perception

Work in progress:

  • Intersectionally Unappealing: Unpacking the vetula in Roman Satire
  • “’Nothing smells as bad as Thais!’ Moral judgement and the aesthetics of olfactory disgust in Martial’s Epigrams.” (Steiner, forthcoming) 

Recent courses:

  • Undergraduate
    • Roman Epistolography
    • Ancient Drama
    • Women in the Ancient World
    • Classical Mythology

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