Education
- University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics
- MPhil in Greek and/or Latin Languages & Literature
- Brown University
- A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Classics: Latin (with Honors)
- Languages
- Ancient Greek, Attic (intermediate reading proficiency)
- Latin (reading proficiency)
- Italian (conversational & reading proficiency)
Publications
- Lena Barsky. “‘The Idea of Transformation’: Fanfiction, Abductive Reasoning, and Embodied Logic as a Means for Studying Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World.” Forthcoming in Umachandran, M. & Ward, M., eds., Forgetting Classics: The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies.
- Steven G. Calabresi and Lena Barsky. “An Originalist Defense of Plyler v. Doe.” 2017 BYU L. Rev. 227 (2017). https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vol2017/iss2/4/
- Lena Barsky. “On the Hidden Meanings of the Laudes Italiae of Virgil’s Georgics Book 2.” Brown Classical Journal 26 (Apr. 2014): 83-92. https://tinyurl.com/BCJ26Barsky
- Lena Barsky. “Alcuin in the Bible.” Brown Classical Journal 25 (Apr. 2013): 143-152. https://tinyurl.com/BCJ25Barsky
Papers Presented
- “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted.” Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings Conference, digital via Oxford University, February 20-21, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHk0QtYuVdg
- “‘Plato: They were gay af and Achilles bottomed’: Classics, Popular Culture, and the Internet.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, November 13, 2020.
- “If There’s a Fire You’re Trying to Douse: Un-Making Hegemonic Approaches to Gender & Sexuality in Roman Scholarship.” The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies Conference, digital via Oxford University, September 7, 2020.
- “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Caeneus?: On Narrative Framing and Gender in the Aeneid.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, May 22, 2020.
- “Ladies, Leave Your Man at Home: The Women of Virgil’s Epyllion, Georgics 315-558.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, February 14, 2020.
Teaching
- Oxford Faculty of Classics Graduate Weekly Language Seminars
- Co-Lead “Hellenistic (and later) poetry: reflections on sexuality, gender and the self” with Dr. Sarah Cullinan Herring, Wadham College, January 2021-March 2021
Academic Employment
- Political Theory Project, Brown University Department of Political Science
- Research Assistant to Professor Steven G. Calabresi, June 2012-December 2013
- Brown University Department of Classics
- Teaching Assistant for “The American Presidency & the Western Tradition,” September 2013-December 2013
- Teaching Assistant for “The Idea of Self,” September 2012-December 2012
- Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute
- Faculty, “Activities” Class, LatinSummer 2009, January 2009-August 2009
Service
- Oxford Faculty of Classics
- “Language and Literature Taught Program” Graduate Representative, December 2019-December 2020
- St Anne’s College Middle Common Room Committee
- LGBTQ+ Representative, January 2020-January 2021
- Brown University Department of Classics
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Brown Classical Journal, September 2012-May 2014
- Meiklejohn Advising Program, Brown University Dean of the College
- Meiklejohn Peer Advisor, September 2011-May 2014
- Brown-RISD Hillel
- Member, Student Search Committee for a New University and Hillel Rabbi, February 2013-May 2013
