Dr. Darcy Krasne

Biography

Darcy Krasne is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Columbia University where he specializes in Late Republican and Early Imperial Latin poetry, with a focus on Augustan and Flavian literature. He received a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 2002 and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2011. After earning his doctorate, he taught at the University of Arkansas from 2011 to 2012 and at the University of Missouri from 2012 to 2016. He held the position of Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati in Spring 2017. His research interests include interactions of poetics and politics in mythology, particularly during the early imperial period, and he has published extensively on these subjects. His notable publications include works on Valerius Flaccus and Ovid, and he is currently working on a monograph under contract with Oxford University Press that explores the ideas of cosmos and meteorology in Valerius Flaccus' "Argonautica."

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