The QATC Team
The Team
Elizabeth Ambrose (she/her):
Elizabeth is entering her first year of a PhD in English Literature at Harvard University, having studied Classics and English as an undergraduate. She is interested in queer reception studies, particularly in early modern literature and modern theatre. She loves hiking, climbing, football, painting and cold water swimming.
Marcus Bell (they/he):
Marcus is a dancer, dyslexic, Virgo sun / Leo rising / Taurus moon. They love writing about dance, contemporary live art and film. Their PhD project, Choreographing Tragedy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, allows them to do just that. Joining up critical classical receptions, queer studies, and choreographic practice, Marcus is pulling tarot cards from their kitchen in Oxford, UK.
marcus.bell@classics.ox.ac.uk | Research Profile
Eleonora Colli (she/they):
Eleonora loves to read and dream but struggles to write. She is working on intersections between queer theory and critical classical reception, and is particularly interested in queer poetics. She is currently completing a PhD in Classics at the University of Oxford on the possibilities of the simile as a queer figure of speech.
eleonora.colli@classics.ox.ac.uk | Research Profile | CV | Twitter
Nicolette D’Angelo (she/her):
Most of the time, Nicolette studies the reception of ancient Greek medical ideas about the body, gender, and sexuality. The rest of the time she might be doing something entirely different. She currently studies at UCLA and lives with a mouse and a dog.
dangelonicolette@gmail.com | Research Profile | Twitter
Claire Heseltine (she/her):
Claire is a PhD student at King's College London, lost between the disciplines of archaeology, classics, and ancient art history. She works predominantly on material religion and miniature images of gods. She is also from Yorkshire, and that is important.
claire.heseltine@kcl.ac.uk | Twitter
Yusi Liu (she/her):
Yusi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on Greek archaeology, reception studies, curation, and museum. Outside academia, Yusi indulges herself in looking at art, making collage, learning music instruments, and adoring her tuxedo cat Birdie (meow) and Birdie's bestie Lucy (meow).
Marta Martín Díaz (she/they):
Marta’s inclination toward friendship, gardens, and Latin poetry has led her to pursue a PhD exploring Lucretius’ De rerum natura from a political perspective. She is currently working on it through a methodological framework of critical classical reception studies.
marta.martindiaz@usal.es | Research Profile
Hugh McElroy (he/him):
Hugh is a veteran Latin teacher with over 20 years experience in Washington DC schools. He teaches independently and creates student editions of texts not commonly taught in high school - or sometimes any - Latin programs.
xylosphongium@gmail.com | Website | Twitter
Theshira Pather (she/her):
Theshira is currently in her 3rd year of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD is focused on the modern reception of Briseis from Homer’s Iliad in modern women-authored novels with a particular focus on marginalisation, liminality, and subjectivity. Her studies incorporate issues of gender, sexuality, slavery, and objectification. Interests include art, miniature painting, Tang Soo Do, kickboxing, squash, gaming, reading, and taking walks in nature. Also a huge dog lover!
Emma Pauly (they/she):
Emma is a graduate student at the University of Chicago, as well as a freelance dramaturg, theatrical translator, and very occasional actor. They specialize in queer embodiment in tragedy, especially as actualized in contemporary production of ancient text. Ask them about Bacchae if you don't have anywhere to be for 3+ hours.
epauly@humnet.ucla.edu | Twitter
Bas Perkins (they/them):
Bas Perkins is currently finishing up their undergraduate education at Hampshire College, in ancient Gender and Imperial Studies. Their current favorites include Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg, when Greek verbs are regular, their cats (Galileo and Scaevola), and Hildegard von Bingen’s organization of the universe.
Kit Pyne-Jaeger (any):
Kit is an MPhil student in Classics at the University of Cambridge, working on nineteenth-century classical reception, theory of classical translation, and gender and embodiment in Greek literature, among other areas. Their scholarship has been published in the New England Classical Journal, the Haley Classical Journal, and Apollon, and their creative work has appeared in the Adroit Journal and the Harvard Advocate. They are from Los Angeles, CA and hold a BA from Cornell University.
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