Jessica Westerhold

September 30, 2023 by

Department of Classics 1119 McClung Tower The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Research Interests
Augustan poetry, Greek tragedy, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, ancient emotions

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

Ovid’s Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-switching (June 2023, Cornell University Press).
“Writing Ovid’s Myth of Exile in Epistula Ex Ponto 3.1.” forthcoming Phoenix 79.1.
“Supporting Collaboration with K-12 Latin Teachers (Current and Prospective): Notes from Nascent Initiatives in Tennessee.” The Classical Outlook 99.1 (2024): 16-19 (co-authored with S. Bartera)
“Tereus’ tears: the performance and performativity of crying in Met. 6.412-674.” In Paulo Martins, Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa and João Angelo Oliva Neto, eds. 2019. Augustan Poetry New Trends and Revaluations, 385-415. São Paulo, Brazil.
“Byblis’s ‘Feminine Latinity’ in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9.450-665.” Helios 45 (2018).1: 37-67.

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

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
2011-2013 — Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Skidmore College