Sasha-Mae Eccleston

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.

Sasha-Mae Eccleston
CitizenshipUnited States
TitleJohn Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
AwardsAndrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Academic background
ThesisApuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineReception studies
InstitutionsBrown University

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.[2][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][1][7][8] Her research foci include reception studies,[9][10] moral philosophy,[3] and the Apuleian corpus.[11]

In 2017 she was appointed the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University.[12][3] 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.[3][6] 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
  • 'Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis. American Journal of Philology 143.2 (2022): 199–218.[18]
  • 'Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars', Modern Drama 64:1 (2021), 24-46[19]
  • 'Cyrus Console's The Odicy and epic ecology.' Classical Receptions Journal 11.1 (2019): 23–43.[20]
  • 'Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's “The Brainsex Paintings”(Plainwater).' Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (2016): 271.[21]

References
  1. "EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE". Eos. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  2. "On the Road to Oxford". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  3. "Sasha-Mae Eccleston | Early Cultures | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  4. Company, Johnson Publishing (2005-12-19). Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 15.
  5. The American Oxonian. Association of American Rhodes Scholars. 2006.
  6. "Eccleston, Sasha-Mae". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  7. "Alumni | DAGRS". dagrs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  8. "Faculty Profile: Sasha-Mae Eccleston - UC Berkeley Department of Classics". classics.lscrtest.com. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  9. Rogers, Brett M.; Stevens, Benjamin Eldon (2017). Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-061006-7.
  10. Greenwood, Emily (2022). "Introduction: Classical Philology, Otherhow". American Journal of Philology. 143 (2): 187–197. doi:10.1353/ajp.2022.0012. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 251575110.
  11. Apuleius (2021-04-20). The Golden Ass. Liveright Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63149-780-3.
  12. "The Department of Classics Welcomes Professor Eccleston | Classics | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  13. "Sasha-Mae Eccleston: Doing the Right Thing in Chi-Raq (2015)". CRSN. 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  14. "Racing The Classics". Princeton University Humanities Council. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  15. "Racing the Classics II". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  16. Rome, American Academy in. "Sasha-Mae Eccleston". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  17. "AAR Rome Prize Winners in Ancient Studies | Society for Classical Studies". classicalstudies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  18. Eccleston, Sasha-Mae; Peralta, Dan-El Padilla (2022). "Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis". American Journal of Philology. 143 (2): 199–218. doi:10.1353/ajp.2022.0013. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 251576560.
  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. doi:10.3138/md.64.1.1100. ISSN 0026-7694. S2CID 233701507.
  20. Eccleston, Sasha-Mae (2018-05-30). "Cyrus Console'sThe Odicyand epic ecology". Classical Receptions Journal. 11 (1): 23–43. doi:10.1093/crj/cly009. ISSN 1759-5134.
  21. Rogers, Brett M.; Stevens, Benjamin Eldon (2017). Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-061006-7.
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