Work

PUBLICATIONS

  • Steven G. Calabresi and Lena M. Barsky, An Originalist Defense of Plyler v. Doe, 2017 BYU L. Rev. 225 (2017).  Available at: http://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.
  • Lena Barsky. “Alcuin and the Bible.” Brown Classical Journal 25 (Apr. 2013): 143-152.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • “Homosexual Panic, Bodily Autonomy, and Hypermasculine Fantasy in the Miles Marianus (Declamationes Maiores 3).” Presentation forthcoming at the Celtic Conference in Classics, Queering the Ancient Body Panel, in person in Wales from July 9-12, 2024. Once presented, full paper text, slides, and bibliography will be available by request via email.
  • “‘They Were Not Two, but a Double Form’: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Imperial Roman Social Control, and Transgender Bodies as Biopolitical Possibility.” Thinking Gender 2022: Transgender Studies at the Intersections Conference, digital via UCLA Center for the Study of Women, April 8, 2022. Full paper text available by request via email.
  • “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted.” Presented at the Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings Conference, digital via Oxford University, on February 20, 2021. Handout with full alt-text for all images available by request via email.
  • “If There’s a Fire You’re Trying to Douse: Un-Making Hegemonic Approaches to Gender & Sexuality in Roman Scholarship.” Presented at the The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies Conference, digital via Oxford University, September 7, 2020. Full paper text available by request via email.

CAPS LOCK, a newsletter which ran more-or-less weekly from May 2016 to June 2017, then semi-monthly until October 2018 with musings, media recommendations, life advice, and sea otters. Currently on hiatus but honestly could come back any day now.

TEEN DATING ABUSE & VIOLENCE at the National Judicial Education Program

  • The Dynamics and Consequences of Teen Dating Violence
  • LGBTQ Issues in Teen Dating Violence
  • LGBTQ Issues in Teen Dating Violence Glossary
  • Teen Dating Violence: Resources for Judicial Leadership
  • (Resources viewable here.)

POLITICAL ANALYSIS at the National Committee for an Effective Congress

SUPREME COURT REPORTING at the Brown Political Review