Maya Chakravorty is a CFD (Consortium for Faculty Diversity) Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics. She holds a B.A. in Classics and Classical Civilizations from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D in Classical Studies from Boston University.
Her research interests include (but are certainly not limited to) Early and Imperial Latin literature, exemplarity, rhetoric and oratory, Roman historiography, cultural history, and ancient education
Her current book project examines the transmission of virtues and ways in which Imperial-era writers conceptualized Republican Roman heroes in ethical discourse, with a focus on the works of Silius Italicus, Quintilian, Pliny the Younger, and Juvenal.
She is teaching a class titled “Then and Now: The Erasure of Indigenous Voices” for the Fall 2024 semester, which offers a comparative analysis of the Roman domination and conquest of Italic peoples, and the experiences and traumas suffered by Indigenous peoples living along the Highway of Tears in northwestern Canada.
January 2024: “Tumens Atavis: Republican Kinship and Virtue in Silius Italicus’ Punica 4”, Society of Classical Studies, New Orleans LA.
October 2022: “Anachronistic Statesmen in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita 1”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Wilmington DE.
August 2021: Panelist for the “Boston University Graduate School Orientation for First-Time Teaching Fellows”, Virtual.
October 2020: “Catonian Ideology in Horace’s Odes 3.1 and 2”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Virtual.
October 2019: “The Genius Populi Romani and the Safekeeping of Republican Rome”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Silver Spring MD.
January 2019: “Memory, Origins, and Fiction in Juvenal’s Satire 3”, Society of Classical Studies, San Diego.
October 2018: “Multa Veterum Praecepta: Vergil’s Correction of Cato’s De Agricultura”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Philadelphia.
October 2017: “The Genius Populi Romani: A Study in Imperial Identity”, Classical Association of the Atlantic States, New York.
