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Hi, I'm Robbie, and I am a first-year PhD student on the Greek and Latin philology track. I finished my BA in Classics and English at Loyola University Maryland in 2024 and came to Duke the following fall. My research interests lie mainly in the realm of Roman poetry of the first-century BCE and first-century CE, particularly lyric poetry and the poetry of the Late Republican-era poet, Catullus. In the summer of my junior year, I conducted a funded research project on Catullus' poetics and reception of Greek lyric in his Carmina. I then wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on Catullus' use of personae throughout the Carmina, focusing specifically on how he constructs and uses various personae, both poetic and amatory, to navigate and transgress political and gender boundaries. I am mostly interested in literary theory and criticism as applied to Classical texts, theories of poetics and poetic composition, gender and sexuality studies, and reception studies, especially the reception of Greek literature in Roman literature.

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