Sasha-Mae Eccleston Explained

Citizenship:United States
Titles:John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
Awards:Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Thesis Title:Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses
Discipline:Classics
Sub Discipline:Reception studies
Workplaces:Brown 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.[1] 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.[2] [3] She studied for an MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures at Oxford University, for which she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.[4] [5] In 2014 she was awarded a DPhil by University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled: Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses.[6] [7] [8] Her research foci include reception studies,[9] [10] moral philosophy, and the Apuleian corpus.[11]

In 2017 she was appointed the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University.[12] She was previously Assistant Professor Classics at Pomona College.[13] 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.[14] [15]

Awards

Selected works

References

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

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