News Archive from April, 2020

Sylvia and Benjamin Nacar

Classics Runs in Their Family

"Thanks to Dad we came to appreciate how much the words and deeds of the ancients define who we are. It's really no coincidence that we both studied Classics at Brown. Still, we arrived at the Classics Department from rather different directions."  [story by Benjamin Nacar '12 and Sylvia Nacar '20]

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Christopher Jotischky-Hull, PhD Candidate, Accepts Position with MLA International Bibliography

Christopher has been accepted as a field bibliographer in Modern Greek literature for the MLA International Bibliography. This project, run by the Modern Language Association, acts as a database for publications in areas relevant to modern languages and their literatures

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Edwin Wong M.A. ’07 Publishes His Book, The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

“For the last thirteen years, I’ve been working on a new theory of tragedy where risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. Why risk?—risk is just so fascinating that someone had to build a theory of drama around it.

Classics Graduate Students Receive Awards

The Classics Department is pleased to announce that two of our graduate students have recently received awards!

Classics Junior Concentrators Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

 The Classics Department is proud to announce that Justin Chiang and Zoe Mermelstein (both class of 2021) have been elected to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa!