Joy is completing a book entitled Citizens and Subjects: The Uses of Rhetoric in Ancient Rome, which brings together her interests in rhetoric, feminist theory, political thought, and Roman culture. For 2003-04 she will be in residence as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, where she will write Talk About Virtue: Roman Republicanism and the Making of the Modern Citizen – a book that puts Roman political theory to work on contemporary questions about citizenship and identity.

Her other areas of interest include ancient education, literary criticism, the politics of poetics (especially pastoral and elegy), and classical reception in early modern Europe and America.

Future book plans include a study of charisma and celebrity in ancient and modern politics, and a collection of essays on the present and future of Classics.

Joy Connolly

Assistant Professor of Classics
Assistant Professor of Political Science, by courtesy

PhD University of Pennylvania 1997