Department of Classical Studies

Kenny Draper (Indiana University Ph.D. 2015), a specialist in Latin poetry, will join us as Assistant Professor in Fall 2019. Kenny served the department superbly as Visiting Assistant Professor in 2015-16, and since then has held prestigious positions at Williams College (2016-18) and at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (2018-19). Kenny is working on a book manuscript Non-Lyric Voices in Horace’s Odes: The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration, and will bring to the department not only expertise in Latin poetry but also a deep familiarity with Roman material culture and Greek poetry.