Jessica Westerhold
ADDRESS
Department of Classics
1107 McClung Tower
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone
Jessica Westerhold
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Augustan poetry, Greek tragedy, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, ancient emotions
Education
- Ph.D., Classics, University of Toronto. Dissertation: Tragic Desire: Phaedra and Her Heirs in Ovid
(Advisor: A. Keith) - M.A., Classics, University of Kansas. Thesis: Silence and power: The Metamorphosis of Rape Myths in Ovid (Advisor: P. Gordon)
- B.A., Classics, Smith College
Teaching
- Gender & Sexuality of Greece and Rome
- Latin: all undergraduate levels
- Greek: beginning and intermediate
- Greek and Roman society and literature (seminars and lecture courses in translation)
- Ancient Greek and Roman mythology (lecture courses in translation)
- Introduction to Gender Studies; Feminist Theories and Methodologies
Employment
- 2022 – present — Assistant Professor, Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2021 – 2022 — Distinguished Lecturer, Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2018 – 2021— Senior Lecturer, Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2013-2018 — Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2013-2018 — Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2011-2013 — Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Skidmore College
- 2006-2011 — Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Toronto
- 2004-2005 — Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Kansas