EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Eos’ Executive Committee (EC) handles the day-to-day operations of the society with an eye towards the long-term mission and new directions for growth.

Sasha-Mae was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up on the east coast of the United States. She credits her love of Latin to a host of excellent educators, but especially to an inspiringly diligent guidance counselor Robin Wise and her first Latin teacher, Ed Robbins. She earned a B.A. from Brown University in Greek, Latin, and Literary Arts, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to reception studies, she researches the intersection of moral philosophy and narrative form in Greco-Roman literature, particularly in the Apuleian corpus. She is currently appointed as the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics, a member of the Cogut Center’s Initiative for Environmental Humanities, and affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University.

Harriet Fertik is a scholar and teacher of ancient political thought and its receptions, especially in the work of African American writers. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. She co-edited (with Mathias Hanses) Above the Veil: Revisiting the Classicism of W. E. B. Du Bois, a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019), and her current book project explores the provocations that W. E. B. Du Bois’s political theory poses to ideas of liberal arts education. Her first book, The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019.

Mathias is an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. He holds an MA from the University of Münster, Germany, in American Studies, an MA in Classics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MPhil and PhD in Classics from Columbia University. He is currently working on a monograph examining W. E. B. Du Bois’s engagement with Roman republican literature, especially the writings of Cicero. He has also been exploring the classicism of Juan Latino, a formerly enslaved professor of Latin in early modern Spain. Mathias’ first book, entitled The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence (University of Michigan Press, 2020), focuses on the reception of Roman comedy in late-republican and early-imperial Latin literature.

Jackie Murray is Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. She completed her BA (Summa cum Laude) in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of Guelph, her MA in Classics at Western University and her PhD in Classics at the University of Washington. She has won several academic awards and fellowships, including the Andrew Heiskell/NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (2011-12) and the Margo Tytus Fellowship for Visiting Scholars, University of Cincinnati (2017-2018). Her primary research area is Hellenistic Poetry, its reception of Archaic and Classical Greek literature, its influence on Latin poetry and Imperial Greek literature, and on Latin and Imperial Literature. Her publications have focused mainly, but not exclusively, on Apollonius’ Argonautica and Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter. Her secondary area is Race and the Classics and the reception of Classics in African American and Afro-Caribbean literature.