Classics

Lucy Anne McInerney

Ph.D. in Classics
Dissertation Negative Creation: The Cost of Harmony in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae

Biography

Lucy has earned a PhD in Classics from Brown. She also holds an MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford and a BA in Classics from Dickinson College. Her dissertation considered the Late Antique poet Claudian's epic poem, De Raptu Proserpinae. She was the Sheridan Center Proctor for the 2023-2024 academic year, during which time she managed Brown’s undergraduate Writing Fellows program. In the summer of 2024, she accepted a job as the Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center at her alma mater, moving back to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she now lives with her husband and fellow Brown Classics PhD '25, Álvaro Pires, their cats Cato and Scaramouche, guinea pigs Truffle and Bean, and her Rhode Island born and bred quarter horse, Mijo.

Teaching

Sheridan Center For Teaching and Learning, Proctor (2023-2024)

Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Norman M. Eberly Writing Center, Dickinson College (2024 - present)