Dr. Yelena Baraz

Biography

Yelena Baraz specializes in Latin literature and Roman cultural history, focusing on the history of ideas. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the American Philological Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities at Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich from 2004 to 2005. She taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut before joining Princeton University in 2007. Baraz investigates how literary texts are shaped by and, in turn, shape social and cultural forces. Her notable publications include 'Written Republic: Cultural Politics of Cicero's Philosophy' (Princeton 2012), which examines Cicero's philosophical works against the historical backdrop of Caesar's dictatorship, and 'Reading Roman Pride' (Oxford 2020), which uses various approaches to explore the political and literary transformations of pride in Latin texts. She has co-edited a special issue on intertextuality in the American Journal of Philology and published articles and chapters on authors such as Pliny, Vergil, and Seneca. Currently, she is working on a study of post-Vergilian pastoral literature and a translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in collaboration with renowned writer and translator Jhumpa Lahiri. Baraz enjoys teaching Latin at all levels and has supervised numerous dissertations in areas such as Vergil’s Eclogues and Petronius’ Satyrica.

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