M.A. Classics, University of Georgia, 2022
I graduated cum laude from Knox College in 2020 with a B.A. in Classics, and I graduated from the University of Georgia in 2022 with an M.A. in Classics. In 2023, I attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the summer seminar Locating Ancient Gender and Sexuality. My main interest is poetry. In 2019, I was an Artists, Scholars, Scientists, and Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (ASSET) fellow at Knox College, which allowed me to complete a project about Odysseus's encounter with Herakles in Odyssey 11. In this project, I proposed that Herakles, a hero who lived a generation before Odysseus, is an insert for Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian hero from an epic tradition that predates the Odyssey, and that Herakles's is the Odyssey poet's way of subtlety referencing The Epic of Gilgamesh. For my M.A. thesis, I compared and contrasted Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, and Cassandra in Aeschylus's Agamemnon to Tamora and Lavinia in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. In the process of writing my thesis, I focused on Aeschylus's phrase "man-willed heart" for describing Clytemnestra, the queen of Argos. I believed that "man-willed heart" could be thought of as Hélène Cixous's concept of bisexuality from her 1976 essay "The Laugh of the Medusa." I proposed in the introduction of my Clytemnestra chapter in my master's thesis that she embodies bisexuality by going through the milestones of a hero's journey yet in the wrong order, and I compared Clytemnestra's story arc in the Agamemnon to that of Telemachus, Odysseus's son, in the Odyssey. This is a concept I would like to transform into a substantial research project during my time at Indiana University.
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