Celsiana Warwick joined the Classics department in 2019. Her research interests include Homeric epic, Greek poetry, ancient gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to Classics, combining literary methods with feminist and queer theory, anthropological theory, and analysis of material culture. In both her research and teaching, she seeks to disrupt traditional narratives about the Classical world that exclude women and other marginalized groups. Her current book project, titled “Gendered Voices in the Iliad: Lament and Heroic Glory,” explores how the Iliad uses feminine voices and perspectives to illuminate the unsustainable nature of hegemonic masculinity in Homeric society.

Publications

• “Christian Martyr as Homeric Hero: A Literary Allusion in Perpetua’s Passio.” Classical Journal 114.1 (2018): 86-109
• “The Maternal Warrior: Gender and Kleos in the Iliad.” American Journal of Philology 140.1 (2019): 1-28
• “We Two Alone: Conjugal Bonds and Homoerotic Subtext in the Iliad.” Helios 46.2 (2019): 115-39
• “Nossis’s Dildo: A Metapoetic Attack on Female Poetry in Herodas’s Sixth Mime” TAPA 150.2 (2020): 333-56
• (in press) “To Kalliston Kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’ Trojan Women” (forthcoming in Classical Philology)
• (in press) “Chthonic Disruption in Lycophron’s Alexandra” (forthcoming in Classical Quarterly)
• (in preparation) “Sun, Moon, and Cucumbers: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in Praxilla’s Hymn to Adonis”