Aimee Hinds Scott is a PhD student from the University of Roehampton, UK, researching intersectional possibilities in receptions of Greek and Roman mythology. She has written about bad feminism in classical reception, issues with fashion’s engagement with the ancient Mediterranean, and polychromy in Neoclassical and modern art.

Aimee Hinds Scott

Modern Medusas: Rethinking “Monsters,” Silence, and Cinema

Pasts Imperfect

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is an associate professor of classics at UT-Austin. She is interested in Roman historiography, political narratives, and the modern reception of classical antiquity from cricket to Game of Thrones. Her first book, Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose, came out in 2015, and her second, You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones, in 2017. Her writing has also been published in The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, and The Hill, as well as other venues. Find her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_AHL">@Dr_AHL</a>, or <a href="https://ayelethaimsonlushkov.com/">visit her website</a>.

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Dark Academia: Classics in Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens” and Mark Prins’s “The Latinist”

Sarah E. Bond is an associate professor of History at the University of Iowa and the director of Undergraduate Studies. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Digital Humanities, public history, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. She received her PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011) and obtained a BA in Classics and History with a minor in Classical Archaeology from the University of Virginia (2005). Her book,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/8224993/trade_and_taboo">Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean,</a> was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2016. Follow her on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SarahEBond">@SarahEBond</a> or&nbsp;read her&nbsp;<a href="https://sarahemilybond.com/">blog</a>.

Sarah E. Bond

Shaily Patel is assistant professor of early Christianity in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. She earned her PhD from The University of North Carolina in 2017 and holds master’s degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and The University of Chicago. Patel’s research explores the various, often contradictory ways in which so-called magic was used to advance a number of theological ends in early Christian texts. Her current book project is titled Peter the Magician: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions.

Shaily Patel

Recovering the Female Clerics of the Early Church

Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature

Fr. Jarel Robinson-Brown is assistant curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate in the City of London, vice chair of OneBodyOneFaith, and visiting scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury.

Jarel Robinson-Brown

For Some, Hell of Earth: On Meghan R. Henning’s “Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature”

Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire; From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity; and Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. He lives in Moore, Oklahoma. Website kyleharper.net Twitter @Oklahomaharper.

Kyle Harper

Monica H. Green, a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, is an expert in the history of medicine in premodern Europe and global infectious diseases. She is the author of, among other books, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology, which won the 2009 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize from the History of Science Society. In 2014, she edited Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death.

Monica H. Green

Letter to the Editor: Kyle Harper Responds to Monica H. Green

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Nandini Pandey works on Roman culture, its representation in contemporary media, and its potential to inform our modern lives. Author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography (Cambridge, 2018) and numerous scholarly and public-facing articles, she is currently writing a book on Roman race and diversity for Princeton University Press.

Nandini Pandey

Where Do We Draw the Line? Addressing Eminent Scholars’ Imperfect Pasts

Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

Perfecting Diseases’ Pasts: On Kyle Harper’s “Plagues Upon the Earth”

Stephanie Wong is a writer and doctoral candidate in History at Brown University. She is co-editor of Public Books’ <a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/sections/">Antiquities</a> section, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Eidolon.

Stephanie Wong

Bachelor Nation and the Ancient History of Gamifying Romance

Joel Christensen is professor and chair of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and serves as senior associate dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to articles on Greek language, myth, and literature, he has published a Beginner’s Guide to Homer (One World, 2013) and Homer’s Thebes (CHS, 2019) with Elton T. E. Barker, as well as A Commentary on the Homeric Battle of Frogs and Mice (Bloomsbury, 2018) with Erik Robinson. He has recently published The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic with Cornell University Press. Christensen runs the ancient Greek and Roman blog <a href="http://sententiaeantiquae.com/">sententiaeantiquae.com</a> and tweets as @sentantiq.

PASTS IMPERFECT