Miriam Kamil
Curriculum Vitae
November 2021
Harvard University
Department of the Classics
204 Boylston Hall
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
Tel: (617) 495-4027
EDUCATION
PhD in Classical Philology 2022
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: “Personification and Emotion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Advisor: Richard F. Thomas.
Master of Studies in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature 2015
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Dissertation: “Narrative Voices and Intertextuality in Ovid’s Heroides 5, 16, and 17”
B.A. in Classical Languages and Literature, Summa cum Laude 2013
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Crime and Justice Minor
Honors thesis: “Sincerity and Satire in the Lesbia Poems of the Catullan Corpus”
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Roman poetry, especially epic and elegy
Greek and Roman mythology
Roman cults and festivals
Roman philosophy, especially Stoicism and Epicureanism
Greek tragedy and epic
Latin palaeography and textual transmission
Literary theory
Gender and sexuality
PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED)
“(In)Human, All Too (In)Human: Ovid’s Tereus and the Vulnerable Body.” In M. L. Haley, A. Abbattista, C. Blanco, G. Savani (eds.), Reassembling the Myth of Tereus from Homer to Ovid. Forthcoming, 2022. Berlin: De Gruyter.
“Locus suspectus: The Uncanny Landscape of Invidia's Lair (Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.760–764).” Preternature 10.1 (2021): 70–89.
PUBLICATIONS (PUBLIC FACING)
“Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation.” Antigone: An open forum for classics, 2021. https://antigonejournal.com/2021/09/trees-ancient-modern/
“A Classicist Reviews Hadestown.” Eidolon, 2020. Medium. https://eidolon.pub/a-classicist-reviews-hadestown-d8a1d97d26aa
“’I Shall — #$% You And *@$# You’: Grappling With Censorship as a Queer Classicist.” Eidolon, 2019. Medium. https://eidolon.pub/i-shall-you-and-you-a3841d4c5e33
TEACHING AND ADVISING
Head Instructor/Course Designer, Harvard University
Accelerated Introductory Latin, Summer 2021 (one condensed semester)
Accelerated Introductory Latin, Summer 2020 (two condensed semesters)
Accelerated introduction to Ancient Greek, Spring 2020 (two condensed semesters)
Madness in Greek and Latin Literature, Fall 2019 (for juniors preparing to write a senior thesis; readings in translation)
Teaching Fellow (assistant to professor and/or section leader), Harvard University
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Spring 2021 (advanced language course)
Catullus, Fall 2020 (advanced language course)
The Ancient Greek Hero, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 (for non-majors; in translation)
Horace’s Odes, Spring 2019 (advanced language course)
Introductory Latin 2, Spring 2019 (second semester)
Introductory Latin 1, Fall 2018 (first semester)
Classical Mythology, Spring 2018 (for non-majors; in translation)
Remote Support Teaching Fellow (supplementary teaching staff during the COVID-19 pandemic), Harvard University
Poetry as Musical Performance, Spring 2021 (for non-majors; in translation)
The Ancient Greek Hero, Fall 2020 (for non-majors; in translation)
Sappho and Her Reception in the Ancient World, Fall 2020 (for non-majors; in translation)
Undergraduate advisor, Harvard University
Senior thesis co-advisor. E. Johns, “An Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Psychosis: From Antiquity to Modern Research.” Fall 2020–Spring 2021
Senior thesis co-advisor. J. Effron, “Monimenta, Octavian, and Aeneas: Mapping Memory in the Development of a Leader.” Fall 2019–Spring 2020
Junior thesis co-advisor. T. Dow, Folk and Myth concentration. Spring 2019
SELECT AWARDS AND GRANTS
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2021–2022
Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates (nominated), Spring 2020
Department selection to lead an independently designed undergraduate seminar course (“Madness in Greek and Latin literature”), Fall 2019
Charles P. Segal Student Travel and Research Grant, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017
Harvard Summer School Tuition Fellowship, Summer 2016
University of Michigan James B. Angell Scholar, 2011–2012
PAPERS GIVEN
“A Girl of a Future Society: Reading Sappho in Virginia Woolf” 2022
13th Celtic Conference in Classics. Panel: (Re)inventing Sappho
Lyon, France. July 15–18.
“Locus Suspectus: Uncanny Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 8” 2021
International Ovidian Society panel: Ovid and the Constructed Visual Environment
SCS Annual Conference. January 5–10.
“Locus suspectus: Landscape and the Uncanny in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 5” 2020
Panel: Latin Epic
CAMWS Annual Conference. March 25–28.
“The Ethics of Excerpting in the Classroom” 2020
Our Voices: A Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy
Columbia University. February 15–16.
“Ovid’s Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology” 2019
Center for Hellenic Studies Open House Series
Washington, DC. November 21.
“Whose Sappho?: How Subversive Receptions of Sappho Transformed the Academy” 2019
Graduate Student Conference
Boston University. November 9.
“Censoring the Classics, Learning from the Classics: Ovid’s Invidia in the Florilegium Gallicum” 2019
Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History
Harvard University. May 2.
“Now You’re Thinking as You Ought: Madness and the Feminized Other in Euripidean tragedy” 2019
Graduate Student Conference
Boston University. March 23.
“Censoring Homoeroticism in Sappho and Catullus” 2018
Classics and Contemporary Issues Workshop
Harvard University. November 1.
INVITED TALKS
“Introduction to Virgil in Ovid.” Calder High School, Classics summer program 2021
“General education courses.” Harvard University Classics Department, Introduction to Pedagogy course 2019
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Member, Classics Pedagogy Working Group 2021
Academic Facilitator, “Reading Homer with Veterans,” Boston Veterans Center 2021
Facilitator, Eos READS For Black Lives local session 2020
Copyeditor, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 2018–2020
Tech Assistant, Hedera Project for Greek and Latin Pedagogy 2020
Data Manager, Horrea Agrippiana Archeological Dig in Rome 2018
WORKSHOPS LED
Classics and Contemporary Critical Issues 2018–2019
WORKSHOPS COMPLETED AS PARTICIPANT
From Troy to Baghdad: Reading Homer with Veterans. Dartmouth University 2021
International Summer School in Medieval Palaeography. Università degli studi di Verona 2020
Unabridged: A Master Class in Library Research. Harvard University 2020
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript. Harvard/Yale 2019
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship. Harvard University 2019
LANGUAGES
Latin (reading, writing)
Ancient Greek (reading, writing)
Italian (reading, writing, speaking)
German (reading, writing, speaking)
French (reading)
Spanish (reading)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society of Classical Studies (SCS)
Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC)
Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC)
International Ovidian Society (IOS)
References available upon request.