Kristina Milnor
Kristina Milnor is associate professor of classics. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1992, she went on to study at the University of Michigan where she received a Graduate Certificate in Womens Studies (1997) and her PhD in Classical Studies (1998). She is the author of Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life (Oxford, 2005), which won the 2006 Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. She has also published articles on the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia, the ancient historian Livy, the graffiti art movement in the 1970s, and Barbie. Her teaching and research interests include Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, feminist theory and gender studies, and Roman history. She has taught courses on Horace, Livy, Lucan, the idea of law in ancient literature, and the representation of the ancient world in film. She is currently working on her second book, on graffiti from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
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