Jen Rea

Latin 241B: AP Pliny for teachers Part 2 Description: After over 10 years, the Latin AP Curriculum has changed its curriculum, replacing Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico with the letters of Pliny the Younger. While Latin teachers are ofte…

I'll be offering a follow up online class on Pliny, specifically those Suggested Letters for AP Latin - 1.6, 2.6, 7.5, 7.24, 9.6, 10.33, 10.34, 10.38, 10.39, 10.40 and includes materials & strategies to ease your workload! #LatinTeach #ClassicsSky

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And I always love the story of why they chose to call it "Wheels on Meals" due to the unlucky string of movies that began with "M" at Golden Harvest!

As feminist art historians and activists have long demonstrated, women are exponentially more likely to be the subject of traditional art than the creators of it (htt{2s:,,(/www.g1Jerrillagirls.com/). Specific references to female artists from Greco-Roman antiquity are rare. Pliny catalogues five women painters (HN 35.147-148; Kampen 1975; Linderski 2003), including Iaia of Cyzicus who painted other women and self-portraits (Micheli 2024). The Classical Athenian 'Caputi hydria' may depict a woman decorating a vessel and a tiny number of Campanian frescoes survive showing women painting (e.g., PPM 5.414= MNN 9017, Naples). Women's artistry may be recorded but obliquely: Pliny notes that the potter Butades first discovered ceramic portraiture by tracing the silhouette that his unnamed daughter had drawn of her lover on a rock-wall (Pliny HN 35.152). Moving beyond a narrative that centres the named artist allows for a more expansive understanding of art-making in the ancient world (Squire 2015). As Murray suggests when discussing early Greece, many more women in the ancient world must have made art (Murray et al, 2020). How were women and girls part of creative artistic and artisanal working practices, conceived broadly across any medium as the expressive use of shape, gesture, color, or materials? Can we find women participating in ateliers, in material sourcing, in design? As sponsors, as owners, as assistants, as accidental creators or destroyers? Can a focus on gender make us re-think the history of art, craft, and design in the ancient world? This panel invites papers that explore any aspect of women as art-makers in antiquity. We also welcome papers on the reception of ancient women art-makers in later times and places. We particularly welcome innovative theoretical, methodological, or arts-based approaches. If you have questions about the panel topic or proposals, contact Sarah Blake (sblake@yorku.ca). Please send abstracts that follow the guidelines for individ…

WCC Call for Abstracts for the 2027 SCS/AIA Meeting!!

Abstracts due by Feb. 15, 2026

A reminder: we are very interested in having *school teachers* apply for the Classical Summer School, in addition to graduate students. Please pass this along to any teachers you may know!

UF Classics is hiring a new Distance Learning Lecturer to supervise our online MA and PhD programs and teach graduate classes. They are amazing students to work with!

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UF Classics is hiring an Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology. My colleagues are awesome to work with and I look forward to welcoming a new archaeologist to our department.
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Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Week 4 of the AI class: part of the lecture discussed the value of human creativity that AI cannot replace. When we use AI in my Roman Satire class, that is what I am teaching my students.
#OsprAI | #UNFAI

This week in the AI class we learned about prompt engineering. As one of my PhD grads once told me, their Classics training taught them that an inquisitive frame of mind helps you discern how to make decisions. You can use that inquisitiveness when learning how to prompt correctly. #OsprAI | #UNFAI

This week's AI Course takeaway: a Classics major once told me that learning to translate taught them how to practice a skill set over and over until they mastered the task. This type of training is incredibly useful for working with Generative AI. #OsprAI | #UNFAI

Taking an AI course that is reinforcing the value of a Classics degree for me. Today's takeaway: we are preparing students for a future where, as AI continues to evolve, creativity, adaptability, and critical thinking skills will be essential. #OsprAI | #UNFAI

#Latin teachers! Nervous about the new #APLatin curriculum? Never taught Pliny? Come read all required letters in my first ever course at #SeumasU Monday nights at 7 on Zoom! We will read in Latin, then discuss interpretation & teaching strategies in English. Course starts Sept 1, limited spots!

Hey AP Latin teachers and other interested Pliny readers! My book, A Pliny Workbook, is on the precipice of printing! In the meantime, you can pre-order it here: www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...
#Classics #Latin

Another FL sunset #tinyjoys

Many thanks to our wonderful colleagues in Coimbra for hosting the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics. Next up, the CCC returns to Ireland in 2026. Call for for panels now open. Please do spread the word - any questions or queries, contact classics@mu.ie

Getting to go to Milan for the first time! #tinyjoys

Picture of pinkish flowers (Irises) with a reddish bush in the background.

Irises! #TinyJoys

Breakfast outdoors before work and dinner with friends. #TinyJoys

Florida's Sunset #tinyjoys

YouTube video by Hodie Romae: Today In Rome Episode 08: Farewell Ovid

Farewell, Ovid!
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Avengers assemble! Our paper on gods and multicultural representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is out! ⚡⚡⚡

Huge thanks to my incredibly talented co-authors:
@baladria.bsky.social @alexvandewalle.bsky.social @joelagordonnz.bsky.social @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social and Kate Minniti! 😍😍🥰

YouTube video by Hodie Romae: Today In Rome Epidsode 07: Ad Multos Annos

Getting ready for Rome's birthday . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec2...

ICFA cover program - black and white design with the words Night Terrors on top and ICFA on the bottom.

Had a great time at #ICFA this year. Very thankful for all of the feedback and questions on my paper on heroic labor in the MCU.

Four people in a panel discussion. All Asian, all wearing glasses, all four in dark jackets

The #ICFA panel on AI is packed, every seat taken and a bunch of folks sitting on the floor (me included). Moderator: Sang-Keun Yoo. Marist University; Ted Chiang, Author; Haerin Shin, Korean University; Derek Lee, Wake Forest University.

YouTube video by THUMPASAURUS Struttin'

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What kind of treadmill do you use indoors? Thinking I need one.

YouTube video by Hodie Romae: Today In Rome Episode 03: How much do you love me?

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Don't forget to submit your proposal for the 2025 Comic Studies Society Conference on July 10th-12th at Michigan State University.#comic #conference #academic

This isn't reception, but right before spring break when everyone was burned out, we had an in-class contest to see who could make the best copy of an ancient coin featuring Cleopatra using only Oreos and toothpicks!