Classics

Fiona E. Sappenfield

Ph.D. in Classics
Dissertation Water in Seneca’s Natural Questions

Biography

Fiona is from Nashville, Tennessee. In 2016, she received her B.A. in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Brown, she worked at the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, and acted as Latin proofreader for Furnace and Fugue (ed. Nummedal and Bilak). She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches film and literature.

 

Publications

Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary, ed. by T. Nummedal and D. Bilak, Latin Proofreader 

Teaching

Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut (2025)