Work

PRESENTATIONS

  • “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.
  • “‘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.” 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.
  • “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.

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 in the Bible.” Brown Classical Journal 25 (Apr. 2013): 143-152.

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TEEN DATING VIOLENCE at the National Judicial Education Program

POLITICAL ANALYSIS at the National Committee for an Effective Congress

SUPREME COURT REPORTING at the Brown Political Review