Homeric Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory: Interpreting Helen and Penelope

by Rachel H. Lesser

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin’s Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993) and Barbara F. McManus’ Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics…

Twenty-five Years of Feminist Theory and the Classics: Now What?

by Barbara Gold

It was exciting to be at CAAS in 2017 both to look back at how far we have come in the fields of feminist scholarship and activism and to look ahead at where we might (should?)…

Capturing the Elusive Universality of Classics

Erica Choi, Princeton University

I remember the first time I read Catullus 101 (multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus…), when I knew that all the index cards filled with principal parts had not…

Resist Together: A Practical Guide to Fighting Harassment in the Workplace

Notes from the SCS Boston Meeting 2018

by Anna Simas

Feminism and Classics Revisited

Introduction by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

2017 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barbara McManus’ Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics. It was also the twenty-fourth anniversary of the publication of Nancy Rabinowitz and…

Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers Organized by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Profession

SCS Panel: Friday 1/5: 10:45 AM to 12:45 PM

Notes by Tori Lee

Gender activism in Australasian Classics and Ancient History

by Maxine Lewis

2017 and 2018 have seen important developments in gender-related activism in Australasian Classics and Ancient History, especially in the arena of anti-sexual harassment measures. Some…

WCC Co-Chairs Report, January 2018

Chiara Sulprizio and Rebecca Futo Kennedy, WCC Co-Chairs 2017

The WCC has had yet another busy and productive year! In what follows we list the areas and the activities undertaken by the WCC: