Miriam Kamil is a Visiting Assistant Professor and at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek and Latin languages, literature, and civilizations. She earned her PhD from Harvard University in May, 2022 with a dissertation titled, “Personification and Emotion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Her dissertation was advised by Richard F. Thomas, with additional supervision by Richard J. Tarrant, Greg Nagy, and Barbara W. Boyd. She then spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

Her research interests include Roman poetry, especially epic and elegy, as well as Greek literature, textual transmission, and modern queer and deviant receptions of classical literature. Her current book project, Queer and Deviant Classics (forthcoming, University of California Press), examines subversive uses of the classics by marginalized communities in the modern era.

Contact: mkamil@brynmawr.edu