Mark Nugent
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Credentials
PhD (University of Washington)
Area of expertise
Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film
Interests and Areas of Graduate Supervision:
Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film.
Recent MA Theses Supervised:
Allie MacIlroy, "On the Margins of Manhood: Examining Physical Gender Atypicality Among Men in Imperial Roman Society" (2022). Recipient of the 2023 Gold Medal for Outstanding Master’s Thesis or Project in the Humanities.
Accepting new MA students
Recent Publications:
“From ‘Filthy Catamite’ to ‘Queer Icon’: Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960-1975).” In Queer Icons from Greece and Rome, ed. Ruby Blondell = Helios 35.2 (2008): 171-196.
“C. W. Marshall and Tom Hawkins (eds.), Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire.” Mouseion 14.3 (2017): 467-469 (review).
Courses:
I am the Recipient of the 2023 Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence.
I teach Greek and Latin at all levels. I also regularly offer GRS 204: “The Ancient World on Film,” GRS 335: “Women in the Greek and Roman World,” GRS 352: “Bad Emperors,” GRS 355: “Love, Sex, and the Body in the Ancient World,” and GRS 383: “Greece and Rome in Modern Popular Culture.”
Current Projects:
My current project is an Introductory Latin Reader.
I am also working on several articles:
- “Rendering the Monstrous Feminine: Myth, Feminism, and Gender Flips in Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s ODY-C” [currently under editorial review]
- “Roasting Caesar: Talbot Mundy’s Tros of Samothraceand the ‘Camp-Fire’ Controversy”
- “The Mediating Boy: Mary Renault and the Longing Colonial Subject”
- “Beyond Hermaphroditus: Transgender and Intersex Issues in the Classics Classroom”