About
Brittany is from San Antonio, Texas and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Millsaps College with a degree in classical studies and art history and a concentration in museum studies. She is broadly interested in cognitive linguistic approaches to early Greek poetry, ecocriticism, metaphors and metaphorical language, and materiality. She is a 2023-2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow.
Her dissertation project, entitled Women and the Nonhuman in Pindar's Epinician Odes, explores the diverse representation of gender in Pindar's epinician odes. It is the first large-scale study of gender in Pindar's corpus. She borrows methods from the New Materialisms to complicate our understanding of the gender hierarchies at play in these poems, using the nonhuman to decenter and redefine subjectivity and agency.
Brittany also has a strong interest in ancient medicine: she has delivered conference papers and taught an undergraduate course as a graduate student instructor on the subject. Moreover, she is interested in issues of critical pedagogy, especially as they pertain to teaching in classics, and is pursuing a CRLT Graduate Teacher Certificate. She is also employed by the U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching working as a Graduate Student Instructional Consultant. She believes that Classics is for everyone. To that end, she has been involved in various open-access digital humanities initiatives, including ITHAKA Reveal Digital, the Ancient Graffiti Project, and the Open Greek and Latin Project. She enjoys reading fiction (especially thrillers and romance), spending time outside, attempting to play the bass guitar, and sewing jazzy bandanas for her dog.
