About
Brittany is from San Antonio, Texas and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Millsaps College with a degree in classical studies and art history and a concentration in museum studies. She is broadly interested in cognitive linguistic approaches to early Greek poetry, temporalities, metaphors and metaphorical language, and materiality.
Her dissertation project, entitled Maidens, Mothers, and Monsters: Women and Objects in Pindar's Epinician Poems, explores the diverse representation of women and female agency in Pindar's epinician odes. It is the first large-scale study of women and gender in Pindar's corpus. She borrows methods from the New Materialisms to complicate our understanding of the gender hierarchies at play in these poems, using the nonhuman to decenter and redefine subjectivity and agency.
Brittany also has a strong interest in ancient medicine: she has delivered conference papers and taught an undergraduate course as a graduate student instructor on the subject. Moreover, she is interested in issues of critical pedagogy, especially as they pertain to teaching in classics, and is pursuing a CRLT Graduate Teacher Certificate. She believes that Classics is for everyone. To that end, she is involved in various open-access digital humanities initiatives, including the Ancient Graffiti Project and the Open Greek and Latin Project. She enjoys reading fiction (especially thrillers and romance), spending time outside, and sewing jazzy bandanas for her dog.
