EDUCATION

2017-        Ph.D in The Classics, Harvard University    

Dissertation     Homer and the Lesbians: Dialect Variation in Archaic Greek Poetry    

Committee: Jeremy Rau (Chair), David Elmer, Gregory Nagy        

2020        A.M. in The Classics, Harvard University

2018        American School of Classical Studies at Athens—Summer Session

2016        M.A. in Greek Language and Literature, UC–Berkeley                    

2015        B.A. in Classics and Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
               High Honors and Departmental Honors in Classics
 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2022–23    Departmental Pedagogy Fellow, Harvard University

2022–23    Faculty, Harvard Summer School

2020–23    Head Tutor, Harvard Classics Scholars in Training Summer Program

2019–23    Assistant Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Poetry

2019–23    Teaching Fellow, Harvard University–Department of the Classics 
 

PUBLICATIONS

Wong Medina, J. (2019). LANDS AND POPULATIONS IN EARLY GREECE - (M.) Oller, (J.) Pàmias, (C.) Varias (edd.) Tierra, territorio y población en la Grecia Antigua: Aspectos institucionales y míticos. The Classical Review, 69 (2), 496-499. [Book Review]
 

Forthcoming

Wong Medina, J.A. 2024. “¿Y las mujeres en la cocina?” in Fernandez Prieto, A. and Unai Iriarte (edd.) (In)visiblidad, vulnerabilidad y agencia. Sevilla: Editorial de Universidad de Sevilla.

Wong Medina, J.A. 2024. “At Last Spoke Diomedes: Decorum in the Iliadic Assembly.” CQ.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS & PAPERS DELIVERED

2025 “Sappho’s Flowers: ἄνθεσι and the Reconstruction of the Lesbian Dative.” Greek and Latin Linguistics Panel, Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, January 2–5.

2024 “As the Ionians Say It: Diectasis in Homeric Diction.” 15^th Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. June 26–30.

2024    “Archaism and Modernization: Synchronically Productive Aeolic Features in Homeric Verse-Making.” Greek and Latin Linguistics Panel at the SCS Annual Meeting in Chicago, 4–7 January 2024.

2023    “Reconsidering Milman Parry’s Aeolic Default: The Dialectal Competence of the Homeric Poets.” Multilingual Literary Practices In A Multicultural World, From Archaic Greece To The Byzantine Empire. Belgian Academy in Rome, 14–15 November 2023.

2023    "Contraction and Diectasis in Homeric Diction." Workshop in IE and Historical Linguistics. Harvard University, November 9.

2023    “By Ancient Hands: Using Realia in Greek and Latin Pedagogy.” RCCHU Innovative Teaching Conference at Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, 26 May 2023.

2023    “The -εσσι Dative: Synchronic Dialectal Variation in Homeric Diction.” Workshop in IE and Historical Linguistics. Harvard University, 3 March 2023.

2022    “From Across the Water: Ionic Influence on Lesbian Lyric.” Borders and Boundaries in the Ancient World. Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, April 29–30, 2022.

2022    “Diomedes in the Iliad.” Homer Panel (Session 1) at the SCS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, 7 January 2022.

2021     “Food in Greco-Roman Antiquity.” Invited Lecture for Joseph Nagy’s “Folklore of Food” (FOLKMYTH 111) at Harvard University, 22 September 2021.

2019    "The Grammar of Divine Epiphany." Voice and Language of the Gods in the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns at CorHaLi, University of Lausanne, 14 June 2019.

2019     "A Fare Share: Prometheus' Trick in Theogony 535-557." Food and Drink in Antiquity, Rutgers University, 1 June 2019.

2016    “The Boneless One: Animal Riddles in Hesiod.” Into the Wild: Flora and Fauna in the Ancient World, UCLA, 22 October 2016.
 

COURSES TAUGHT

2023    Intensive Beginning Summer Latin—Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2023    Classics Pedagogy Seminar (Spring) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2023    Classical Myth (GENED 1110; Spring) — Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

2022    Classics Pedagogy Seminar (Fall) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2022    The Greek Hero (GENED 1740; Fall) — Head Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

2022    Intensive Beginning Summer Greek — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2022    Classics Junior Tutorial: “Mere Bellies: Food in the Ancient World” — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2022    Myth (GENED 1110; Spring) — Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

2021    The Greek Hero (GENED 1074; Fall) — Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

2021    Introduction to Greek Literature (Spring) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2020    Introduction to Greek Composition (Fall) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2020    Greek 2 (Spring) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University

2019    Greek 1 (Fall) — Primary Instructor, Harvard University
 

UNDERGRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED

2022    Arellano, Ethan. The Disharmony of Harmonia. Harvard Undergraduate Thesis in Classics.

2020    Yeo, Ellis. Love’s Grief Work: Reading Ancient Greece in the AIDS Elegies of Paul Monette & James Merrill. Harvard Undergraduate Thesis in English and Classics. [A chapter from this thesis won the 2020 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize.]

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS 

2023    Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Spring) – Harvard University

2022    Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Fall) – Harvard University

2022    Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Spring) – Harvard University

2021    Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Fall) – Harvard University    

2018    ASCSA Open Scholarship (Lord)

2016    Berkeley-Oxford Papyrology Seminar Fellowship, UC-Berkeley    

2015    Chancellor’s Fellowship, UC-Berkeley            

2014    McNair Summer Research Institute Fellowship, UT-Austin    

2014    Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Serbo-Croatian, UT-Austin

2014    Halsell Endowed Presidential Scholarship, UT-Austin