Roberta L. Stewart
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Classical Studies
Affiliated Faculty History, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
Associated Faculty Comparative Literature
Area of Expertise
Roman history, literature and culture,
comparative slavery,
Roman coins,
Roman women,
Roman priesthood and the holy,
Greek and Latin Literature,
Ancient Religion
Education
B.A. University of Michigan
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Ph.D. Duke University
Taught Courses
Publications
Forthcoming. "Witnessing and Poetic Receptions of the Experience of War: Homer, Doug Anderson, and Jehanne Dubrow," In Just Classics. Edited by E. Perry and D. Machado, University of Michigan Press.
2024. "Gender, Class, and Slavery in Plautus' Rudens in 1884 St. Louis," CJ 119: 413-438.
2023. "Seeing Fotis: Slavery and Gender in Apuleius' Metamorphoses," CA 42: 195–228.
2019. with Dominic Machado, "Progress and Precarity: 150 Years of TAPA," TAPA 149
Supplement: 39-60.
2019. "Seeing Caesar's Symbols: Religious Implements on the Coins of Julius Caesar and His
Successors," in Concordia Disciplinarum: Essays on Coinage, Ancient History, and Archaeology in Honor of William E. Metcalf. Edited by N. Elkins and J. DeRose Evans (American Numismatic Society publications) 107-119.
2015. "Ancient Narratives and Modern War Stories: Reading Homer with Combat Veterans," Amphora 12.1: 1-3, 20-21.
2014. "The Slave as Roman Outsider," in D. Hammer, ed. Blackwell Companion to Ancient and Modern Democracies and Republics: A Comparative Approach (Wiley-Blackwell) 405-428.
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