Katie DeBoer received her Ph.D. in Classics from UNC--Chapel Hill in 2016 and taught at Indiana University and Xavier University before coming to Miami in 2022. Her favorite classical authors are Homer, Aeschylus, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid; this list is subject to change without notice. 

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
• M.A., Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2010
• A.B., Classics (with honors), University of Chicago,  June 2007

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Latin poetry, especially Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, and Seneca.
• Greek poetry, especially Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, and Apollonius.
• Gender studies, embodiment, discourse analysis.
• Second-language acquisition, active and communicative language teaching, digital pedagogy.

COURSES TAUGHT AT MIAMI

• Latin 101
• Latin 201

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Eigel Center Academy for Community Engaged Faculty, Xavier University. Spring 2021. (Competitive, stipend-funded training program to support the development of a service-learning course.)
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, CAMWS (Williamsburg). 2016.
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill. 2015-2016.
• Summer Research Fellowship, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill. 2014.
• American Philological Association Outstanding Student Award. 2013.
• Berthe Marti Travel Award, Department of Classics, UNC-Chapel Hill. 2011.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

• In progress: Confronting the Carnographic: Death and the Female Body in Homer, Vergil, and Lucan. 
  

Articles

• “Violence and Vulnerability in Ovid’s Amores 1.5-1.8.”  AJP 142.2: 259-268. 2021.
• “Arms and the Woman: Discourses of Militancy and Motherhood in Vergil’s Aeneid.”  Arethusa 52.2: 129-164. 2019.
• “Blaming Helen: Vergil’s Deiphobus and the Tradition of Dead Men Talking.”  Eugesta 9: 1-25. 2019.
• “Pindar’s Peaceful Rapes.”  Helios 44: 1-27.  2017.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• “Homer Between Hypertext and Paratext: The Cover Art of Two Adaptations of the Iliad.” SCS, New Orleans. January 2023. (upcoming)
• “Confronting the Carnographic in Greek and Latin Epic.”  Conference on Bodies and Cultural Production in the Ancient Mediterranean, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. October 7-9, 2022 (upcoming).
• “Carnographic Imagery and the Female Body in Vergil’s Aeneid.” Feminism & Classics 2022 (upcoming).
• “Gendered and Ethnic Inversions in Horace, Ode 1.15 (Pastor cum traheret).” CAMWS, Cleveland. 2021.
• “Insights from Hybrid Teaching.” Roundtable Organizer and Presider. CAMWS, Cleveland 2021.
• “Embodied Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and District 9 (2009).” Antiquity in Media Studies 2020.
• “Maternal Malfunctions: Niobe and Latona in Seneca’s Medea.” SCS, Washington DC. 2020.
• “Militancy and Motherhood in Vergil’s Aeneid.” Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison. March 13th, 2019.
• Graduate Workshop: The Classics Job Market. Classics Graduate Forum, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison. March 14th, 2019.
• “Agents of Chaos: Political Violence in Euripides’ Bacchae and V for Vendetta.” Film & History Conference, Madison. November 2018.
• “Arms and the Woman: Female Combatants in the Aeneid.” CAMWS, Albuquerque. 2018.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Society for Classical Studies
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• Antiquity in Media Studies
• Women's Classical Caucus
• Ohio Classical Conference
• Association of Ancient Historians

SERVICE POSITIONS

• Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Association of Ancient Historians. 2022-present.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Antiquity in Media Studies. 2022-present.
• Professional Development Committee, Antiquity in Media Studies. 2021-present.
• Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Liaison, International Ovidian Society. 2021-present.