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)