Mark Nugent
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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”