Chancellor Professor and Chair of Classical Studies
Professor Panoussi's research focuses on Latin Literature of the Late Republic and early Empire, and on Vergil in particular. She is also interested in the study of women and gender in antiquity and in Greco-Roman religion. She is the author of Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (Cambridge University Press 2009) and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's rituals in Roman Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press 2019). She has co-edited a collection of essays on Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representation and Reactions (Routledge 2020). She has taught a range of courses on Greek and Roman literature and culture and all levels of Greek and Latin. She is currently at work on a book project tentatively entitled, The Goddess Isis in Roman Literature: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity as well as on a project on the reception of Classical Myth in young adult literature and culture.
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About Vassiliki Panoussi
Professor Panoussi's research focuses on Latin Literature of the Late Republic and early Empire, and on Vergil in particular. She is also interested in the study of women and gender in antiquity and in Greco-Roman religion. She is the author of Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (Cambridge University Press 2009) and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's rituals in Roman Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press 2019). She has co-edited a collection of essays on Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representation and Reactions (Routledge 2020). She has taught a range of courses on Greek and Roman literature and culture and all levels of Greek and Latin. She is currently at work on a book project tentatively entitled, The Goddess Isis in Roman Literature: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity as well as on a project on the reception of Classical Myth in young adult literature and culture.
