Classics

Caitlin earned her BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Upon graduating, she taught literature and philosophy seminars to high-school seniors at a classical charter school in Arizona before attending a three-year Latin and Ancient Greek post-baccalaureate program at Georgetown University.  From her study of a broad range of poets and prose authors,she has developed a fascination for the emergence and role of fiction in Greek and Roman literature and how conceptions of truthfulness and artifice inform early literary self-consciousness in antiquity.

Caitlin’s current research has focused on the Odyssey, and the ways this text may express Archaic self-conscious reflection on the tension between poetic artifice and truth. She hopes to better define this early consciousness and to use it as a backdrop for understanding the ways later Classical and Hellenistic authors engage with ideas about poetry.