Mark Nugent

Mark Nugent
Position
Associate Teaching Professor
Contact
Office: Clearihue B428
Credentials

PhD (University of Washington)

Area of expertise

Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film

Interests and Areas of Graduate Supervision:

Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film.

Recent MA Theses Supervised:

Allie MacIlroy, "On the Margins of Manhood: Examining Physical Gender Atypicality Among Men in Imperial Roman Society" (2022).

Recent Publications:

“From ‘Filthy Catamite’ to ‘Queer Icon’: Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960-1975).”  InQueer Icons from Greece and Rome, ed. Ruby Blondell = Helios 35.2 (2008): 171-196. 

 “C. W. Marshall and Tom Hawkins (eds.), Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire.”  Mouseion 14.3 (2017): 467-469 (review).

Courses:

I teach Greek and Latin at all levels.  I also regularly offer GRS 204: “The Ancient World on Film,” GRS 250: “Greek and Latin Roots of English,” GRS 326: “Bad Emperors,” GRS 335: “Women in the Greek and Roman World,” GRS 355: “Love, Sex, and the Body in the Ancient World,” and GRS 383: “Greece and Rome in Modern Popular Culture.”

Current Projects:

My current project is an Introductory Latin Reader.

I also at work on several articles:

1.  “Roasting Caesar: Talbot Mundy’s Tros of Samothrace and the ‘Camp-Fire’ Controversy”

2.  “Helen in Fetish Gear: Feminism, Misogyny, and Violence in Matt Fraction and Christian          Ward’s ODY-C

3.  “Beyond Hermaphroditus: Transgender and Intersex Issues in the Classics Classroom”

4.  “The Mediating Boy: Mary Renault and the Longing Colonial Subject”