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| Lauren Caldwell,
assistant professor of classical studies, will teach Latin and a course on
Vergil's Aeneid next fall. |
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| Posted 07.06.06 |
Classical Studies Welcomes Latin Literature Expert to Department
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Lauren Caldwell was
hired as an assistant professor of classical studies on July 1.
Caldwell has an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University and received her
M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Michigan. Her research interests are
Roman social history, Latin literature, Roman law and ancient medicine.
Strong support for the faculty's scholarly and pedagogical goals attracted
Caldwell to Wesleyan.
"I am strongly committed to my research and to my teaching, and Wesleyan
does a remarkable job of supporting faculty scholarship, while also focusing
on undergraduate instruction, Caldwell says. "Universities that
successfully balance these two parts of academic life are rare, and for this
reason I am thrilled to be at Wesleyan."
Moreover, since the days when she wrote a senior undergraduate thesis on
literacy in the Roman world, Caldwell has recognized the value of students'
receiving close guidance from faculty.
"Wesleyan is wonderful because its small size allows faculty to follow
students through their time at the university, especially in their major,
she explains. When I visited the campus and the Classical Studies
Department, I was impressed by both the students many of whom asked
excellent questions about my research and teaching and by the faculty, who
are dedicated to advising students and helping them gain the most they can
from their coursework. I wouldn't be here today without the support of
advisers and mentors, and I am happy to have the opportunity to give some of
that back at Wesleyan."
Caldwell comes to Wesleyan from the Department of Classics at Georgetown
University in Washington, DC, where she was a visiting assistant professor.
At Georgetown, she taught intermediate and advanced Latin, including the
authors Cicero, Vergil, Tacitus and Apuleius. She also taught the History of
the Roman Empire and courses on Roman Egypt, Roman law, ancient slavery and
ancient medicine.
At Wesleyan, Caldwell will teach First-Year Latin and a course on Vergil's
Aeneid in the fall and focus on revising her book manuscript, Scripted
Lives: Girls' Coming of Age in the Early Roman Empire, for Cambridge
University Press. Her other publications include "Roman Girls' Transition to
Marriage in Legal Thought," in Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the
Ancient Mediterranean, forthcoming with Indiana University Press, 2007; and
"Dido's Deductio: Aeneid 4.127-168," for Classical Philology.
Caldwell lives in Middletown with her husband, Bob, who is a visiting
assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies. In her spare
time, she enjoys cooking, exploring Connecticut's state parks, and, less
often, traveling to Roman sites, most recently in Tunisia and Spain.
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Olivia Bartlett, The Wesleyan Connection
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