VISITING FACULTY
Micah Young Myers
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Education
- B.A. at University of California, Santa Cruz 2001
- Ph.D. at Stanford University, 2008
Research Interests
- Latin Literature
- Ancient Geography and Ethnography
- Intertextual Theory
Contact Information
| myersmi@indiana.edu |
| Ballantine Hall, Room 552 |
| 855-7125 |
Background
My research and teaching interests focus on Latin literature and culture. In particular, my research investigates the intersection between Latin literature, geography and ethnography. My current book project, which has the working title The Frontiers of the Empire and the Edges of the World in the Augustan Poetic Imaginary, explores literary representations of the relationship between Rome and distant places in Gallus, Horace, Propertius and Tibullus. I investigate these representations by combining literary analysis and close reading with recent scholarship on the conceptualization of space in the Roman world. My research is intended to deepen understanding of the significance of geography and ethnography in Augustan literature, and to contribute to the larger dialogue about Roman conceptions of culture and space.
Courses Recently Taught
- Classical Mythology
- Classical Drama
Publication Highlights
Articles
“Lucan’s Poetic Geographies: Center and Periphery in Civil War Epic,” forthcoming in P. Asso (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Lucan (Leiden).
“Miles From Bed (Milia Lecto): Propertius’ ‘Elegiac Geography,’” forthcoming in E. Cingano and L. Milano (eds.), Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente dell'Università Ca' Foscari).
“Footrace, Dance, and Desire: The χορός of Danaids in Pindar’s Pythian 9,” Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 5.2 (2007) 230-47.
