In this podcast, I, Scott Lepisto, interview classicists from all walks of life to discover how they became interested in the Greco-Roman world, who influenced them, and how their careers evolved.
Enjoy this bonus episode of the Endless Knot with Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram recorded at Sound Education 2019! Endless Knot: http://www.alliterative.net, https://twitter.com/AllEndlessKnot Aven McMaster: https://twitter.com/AvenSarah Mark Sundaram: https://twitter.com/Alliterative Sound Education: https://www.soundeducation.fm, https://twitter.com/sound_edu Scott Lepisto: https://scottlepisto.com https://twitter.com/ScottLepisto Itinera: https://twitter.com/itinerapod
Donna Zuckerberg (https://twitter.com/donnazuck), Editor in Chief of Eidolon (https://eidolon.pub) and author of Not All Dead White Men (https://amzn.to/2WcS57P) sits down with me on the finale of season 2 of Itinera to discuss the creation and evolution of Eidolon, the reception of classics in Red Pill communities, and how she conceives of her role as an ally. Recorded at the Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. You can keep up with what is happening on the show at https://twitter.com/itinerapod and me at https://twitter.com/scottlepisto. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod Thank you so much for listening!
Lisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on Homeric and Senecan bodies, corporeal discord, and how performance venue informs the meaning of drama. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2019. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Lisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on forging personal connections with students, her unusual path into the field, and how her disability informs her teaching. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (@kataplexis, https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com) of Denison University on identity in the ancient world, her working class background, and the Taleb/Beard feud. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod If you are interested in learning more about the ethnic diversity of Roman Britain, you can read about it here: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/roman-britain
Stamatia Dova, Professor of Classics at Hellenic College Holy Cross, on reading Greek in Greece, respecting the text, and her "door half open" approach to advising. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq,https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) goes deep on the power of narrative. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Joel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq, https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) on his early interest in Classics, the appeal of Homeric poetry, and the power of narrative. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Sonya Wurster on Philodemus, her approach to writing, and how teaching Greek and Roman literature prepared her to teach the classics of China and India. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Ariane Schwartz on the development of the Online Public Classics Archive (http://opca.paideiainstitute.org/articles), the reception of Horace, and life as a classicist in the private sector. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Emily Hauser on the relationship between her historical fiction and her scholarship, how she approaches creative writing, and the most interesting receptions of classical literature by contemporary women writers. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. Emily’s website: https://www.emilyhauser.com You can donate to Itinera here: paypal.me/itinerapod
Jackie Murray, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky, on her groundbreaking research on Apollonius, the difficult path she walked from graduate student to professor, African-American and Afro-Caribbean receptions of classical literature, and racism within the field of Classics. Jackie’s portraits:http://bit.ly/JackiePhotos Video of Jackie reading the Jamaican Patois translation of the Iliad: https://vimeo.com/39396391
On the season finale of season 1 of Itinera, Ryan Stitt (@greekhistorypod) of the History of Ancient Greece Podcast and I discuss classics podcasting. http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com See you in 2018! If you enjoyed season 1 of Itinera and would like to show your appreciation, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast in iTunes. It improves Itinera's ranking, which helps others discover the podcast.
Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA, reflects on how she became a feminist, her winding road to a tenure-track job, her favorite subject to teach, and her (hilarious) approach to advising.
Amy Pistone (@apistone), Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, on inebriation in classical antiquity, applying classics to the contemporary world, and prophecy in ancient Greece.
Aspiring classicist and graduate student at San Diego State University, Christine Wong (@c_ycwong), on the relationship between magic, medicine, and religion in classical antiquity.
Hannah Čulík-Baird (@opietasanimi), Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, on Classics Twitter, the SCS, and her research on Cicero.
Ichiro Taida, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Japanese at I-Shou University, on his history as a classicist and the place of classics in Japan and Taiwan.
Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, on the state of classics in Switzerland, American and continental approaches, and her work on Hellenistic Egypt.
My interview with Helen Morales, Professor of Classics at UC Santa Barbara, on writing for a general audience, Pilgrimage to Dollywood, and feminist theory.
My interview with LA-based high school teacher, Alexis Whalen, on living Latin, Latin pedagogy, and combining research with teaching at the high school level.
My interview with Ellen Finkelpearl, Professor of Classics at Scripps College, on zoomusicology, Apuleius, and teaching at a liberal arts women's college.
My interview with Alex Purves, Professor of Classics at UCLA, on her research process, approach to mentoring, and scholarship on Homer.
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