Coming from Pomona College, Prof. Eccleston received her M.Phil. from Oxford and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on Apuleius, now becoming a book entitled “Humanizing Speech: Apuleius and the Ethics of Narration”.  With interests in reception and literary theory, she has written articles on the poetry of Anne Carson and Marvel Studio’s Thor, blogged about Spike Lee's Aristophanes adaptation Chi-raq, and is currently working on another large-scale project on reception of epic in the post-9/11 U.S.

Prof. Eccleston is familiar with the culture at Brown well as she concentrated in Classics here as an undergraduate!  Her exciting teaching reflects that background — at Pomona, she taught classes like “Love and Identity in the Roman Empire”, “The Ancient Novel,” and “The Epic Tradition, or What is Genre?”.  This Fall, at Brown, she will be introducing a new class called “Witches and Vixens: Nasty Women in Ancient Greece and Rome,” so you won’t want to miss that! 

Please join us in congratulating Professor Eccleston on her new position and welcoming her to the Department of Classics!