Overview
Samantha is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell on the Philology track. She received her B.A. in Classics (2013) and her M.A. in Comparative Literature with a Classics concentration (2016) from the University of New Mexico. She is interested in all aspects of Greek and Roman comedy, particularly Terentian comedy and Roman social and political history. Other research interests include ancient drama more broadly, Old Latin, elegiac poetry, and satire.
Her dissertation will show that Terence’s plays draw attention to Roman morality in multifaceted ways: the characters and double-plots demonstrate moral dilemmas which are themselves informed by legislative acts of moral censorship, the mentality of imperialism, and changing ideas about ownership and authority.
Classical Philology and Literature Concentration