Sasha-Mae Eccleston | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | United States |
| Title | John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics |
| Awards | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Reception studies |
| Institutions | Brown University |
Sasha-Mae Eccleston is a classicist and the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is an expert on reception studies and the works of Apuleius. She is the co-founder of Eos,an academic network which focuses on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Eccleston was born in Kingston,Jamaica. [1] Her family moved to New Jersey when she was four years old. She was awarded a scholarship to Lawrenceville School and went on to study Classics and Literary Arts at Brown University. [2] [3] She studied for an MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures at Oxford University,for which she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. [2] [4] [5] In 2014 she was awarded a PhD by University of California,Berkeley,with a thesis entitled:Apuleius' Novel Narrative:Speech,Ethics,and Humanity in the Metamorphoses. [6] [1] [7] [8] Her research foci include reception studies, [9] [10] moral philosophy, [3] and the Apuleian corpus. [11]
In 2017 she was appointed the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. [12] [3] She was previously Assistant Professor Classics at Pomona College. [13] From 2017 to 2020 she was co-president of Eos,a scholarly organisation she also co-founded,that concentrates on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. [3] [6] With Dan-el Padilla Peralta she co-founded Racing the Classics, an international conference series which concentrates in the development of critical race theory in Classics. [14] [15]
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