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Classicist
Sasha-Mae Eccleston
CitizenshipUnited States
TitleJohn Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
AwardsAndrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Academic background
ThesisApuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineReception studies
InstitutionsBrown University

Sasha-Mae Eccleston is a classicist and the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is an expert on reception studies and the works of Apuleius. She is the co-founder of Eos, an academic network which focuses on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Biography

Eccleston was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Her family moved to New Jersey when she was four years old. She was awarded a scholarship to Lawrenceville School and went on to study Classics and Literary Arts at Brown University. She studied for an MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures at Oxford University, for which she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2014 she was awarded a PhD by University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled: Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses. Her research foci include reception studies, moral philosophy, and the Apuleian corpus.

In 2017 she was appointed the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. She was previously Assistant Professor Classics at Pomona College. From 2017 to 2020 she was co-president of Eos, a scholarly organisation she also co-founded, that concentrates on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. With Dan-el Padilla Peralta she co-founded Racing the Classics, an international conference series which concentrates in the development of critical race theory in Classics.

Awards

Selected works

  • 'Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis. American Journal of Philology 143.2 (2022): 199–218.
  • 'Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars', Modern Drama 64:1 (2021), 24-46
  • 'Cyrus Console's The Odicy and epic ecology.' Classical Receptions Journal 11.1 (2019): 23–43.
  • 'Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's “The Brainsex Paintings”(Plainwater).' Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (2016): 271.

References

  1. ^ "EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE". Eos. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  2. ^ "On the Road to Oxford". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  3. ^ "Sasha-Mae Eccleston | Early Cultures | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  4. Company, Johnson Publishing (2005-12-19). Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 15. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. The American Oxonian. Association of American Rhodes Scholars. 2006.
  6. ^ "Eccleston, Sasha-Mae". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  7. "Alumni | DAGRS". dagrs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  8. "Faculty Profile: Sasha-Mae Eccleston - UC Berkeley Department of Classics". classics.lscrtest.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  9. Rogers, Brett M.; Stevens, Benjamin Eldon (2017). Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-061006-7.
  10. Greenwood, Emily (2022). "Introduction: Classical Philology, Otherhow". American Journal of Philology. 143 (2): 187–197. doi:10.1353/ajp.2022.0012. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 251575110.
  11. Apuleius (2021-04-20). The Golden Ass. Liveright Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63149-780-3.
  12. "The Department of Classics Welcomes Professor Eccleston | Classics | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  13. "Sasha-Mae Eccleston: Doing the Right Thing in Chi-Raq (2015)". CRSN. 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  14. "Racing The Classics". Princeton University Humanities Council. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  15. "Racing the Classics II". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  16. Rome, American Academy in. "Sasha-Mae Eccleston". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  17. "AAR Rome Prize Winners in Ancient Studies | Society for Classical Studies". classicalstudies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  18. Eccleston, Sasha-Mae; Peralta, Dan-El Padilla (2022). "Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis". American Journal of Philology. 143 (2): 199–218. doi:10.1353/ajp.2022.0013. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 251576560.
  19. Eccleston, Sasha-Mae (2021-03-01). "Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars". Modern Drama. 64 (1): 24–46. doi:10.3138/md.64.1.1100. ISSN 0026-7694. S2CID 233701507.
  20. Eccleston, Sasha-Mae (2018-05-30). "Cyrus Console'sThe Odicyand epic ecology". Classical Receptions Journal. 11 (1): 23–43. doi:10.1093/crj/cly009. ISSN 1759-5134.
  21. Rogers, Brett M.; Stevens, Benjamin Eldon (2017). Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-061006-7.

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