Sasha-Mae Eccleston
{{Short description|Classicist}}
{{Infobox academic
| citizenship = United States
| titles = John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
| awards = Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
| thesis_title = Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses
| discipline = Classics
| sub_discipline = Reception studies
| workplaces = Brown University
}}
Sasha-Mae Eccleston is a classicist and the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is an expert on reception studies and the works of Apuleius. She is the co-founder of Eos, an academic network which focuses on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Biography
Eccleston was born in Kingston, Jamaica.{{Cite web |title=EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |url=https://www.eosafricana.org/executive-committee |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Eos |language=en-US}} Her family moved to New Jersey when she was four years old. She was awarded a scholarship to Lawrenceville School and went on to study Classics and Literary Arts at Brown University.{{Cite web |title=On the Road to Oxford |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-04-18/on-the-road-to-oxford |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sasha-Mae Eccleston {{!}} Early Cultures {{!}} Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-cultures/people/affiliated-faculty/sasha-mae-eccleston |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=www.brown.edu}} She studied for an MPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures at Oxford University, for which she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.{{Cite book |last=Company |first=Johnson Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ML8DAAAAMBAJ&dq=Sasha-Mae+Eccleston&pg=PA15 |title=Jet |date=2005-12-19 |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |pages=15 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P46fAAAAMAAJ&q=Sasha-Mae+Eccleston |title=The American Oxonian |date=2006 |publisher=Association of American Rhodes Scholars |language=en}} In 2014 she was awarded a PhD by University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled: Apuleius' Novel Narrative: Speech, Ethics, and Humanity in the Metamorphoses.{{Cite web |title=Eccleston, Sasha-Mae |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/secclest#All |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=vivo.brown.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Alumni {{!}} DAGRS |url=https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/people/alumni |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=dagrs.berkeley.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Faculty Profile: Sasha-Mae Eccleston - UC Berkeley Department of Classics |url=http://classics.lscrtest.com/people/person_detail.php?person=127 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=classics.lscrtest.com}} Her research foci include reception studies,{{Cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Brett M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhqhDQAAQBAJ&dq=Sasha-Mae+Eccleston&pg=PA20 |title=Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy |last2=Stevens |first2=Benjamin Eldon |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-061006-7 |pages=20 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Greenwood |first=Emily |date=2022 |title=Introduction: Classical Philology, Otherhow |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862242 |journal=American Journal of Philology |volume=143 |issue=2 |pages=187–197 |doi=10.1353/ajp.2022.0012 |s2cid=251575110 |issn=1086-3168}} moral philosophy, and the Apuleian corpus.{{Cite book |last=Apuleius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpLxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Sasha-Mae+Eccleston+apuleius&pg=PT215 |title=The Golden Ass |date=2021-04-20 |publisher=Liveright Publishing |isbn=978-1-63149-780-3 |language=en}}
In 2017 she was appointed the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University.{{Cite web |title=The Department of Classics Welcomes Professor Eccleston {{!}} Classics {{!}} Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/classics/news/2018/05/department-classics-welcomes-professor-eccleston-0 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=www.brown.edu}} She was previously Assistant Professor Classics at Pomona College.{{Cite web |date=2016-12-23 |title=Sasha-Mae Eccleston: Doing the Right Thing in Chi-Raq (2015) |url=https://classicalreception.org/sasha-mae-eccleston-doing-the-right-thing-in-chi-raq-2015/ |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=CRSN |language=en-US}} From 2017 to 2020 she was co-president of Eos, a scholarly organisation she also co-founded, that concentrates on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. With Dan-el Padilla Peralta she co-founded Racing the Classics, an international conference series which concentrates in the development of critical race theory in Classics.{{Cite web |title=Racing The Classics |url=https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/racing-the-classics/ |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Princeton University Humanities Council |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Racing the Classics II |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/racingtheclassics/ |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=warwick.ac.uk}}
Awards
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize (American Academy in Rome - National Endowment for the Humanities) - 2021-22{{Cite web |last=Rome |first=American Academy in |title=Sasha-Mae Eccleston |url=https://www.aarome.org/people/rome-prize-fellows/sasha-mae-eccleston |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=American Academy in Rome |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=AAR Rome Prize Winners in Ancient Studies {{!}} Society for Classical Studies |url=https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/aar-rome-prize-winners-ancient-studies |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=classicalstudies.org}}
Selected works
- 'Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis. American Journal of Philology 143.2 (2022): 199–218.{{Cite journal |last1=Eccleston |first1=Sasha-Mae |last2=Peralta |first2=Dan-El Padilla |date=2022 |title=Racing The Classics: Ethos and Praxis |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/862243 |journal=American Journal of Philology |language=en |volume=143 |issue=2 |pages=199–218 |doi=10.1353/ajp.2022.0013 |s2cid=251576560 |issn=1086-3168}}
- 'Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars', Modern Drama 64:1 (2021), 24-46{{Cite journal |last=Eccleston |first=Sasha-Mae |date=2021-03-01 |title=Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars |url=https://moderndrama.utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/md.64.1.1100 |journal=Modern Drama |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=24–46 |doi=10.3138/md.64.1.1100 |s2cid=233701507 |issn=0026-7694}}
- 'Cyrus Console's The Odicy and epic ecology.' Classical Receptions Journal 11.1 (2019): 23–43.{{Cite journal |last=Eccleston |first=Sasha-Mae |date=2018-05-30 |title=Cyrus Console'sThe Odicyand epic ecology |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/cly009 |journal=Classical Receptions Journal |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=23–43 |doi=10.1093/crj/cly009 |issn=1759-5134}}
- 'Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's “The Brainsex Paintings”(Plainwater).' Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (2016): 271.{{Cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Brett M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhqhDQAAQBAJ&q=Sasha-Mae+Eccleston&pg=PA271 |title=Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy |last2=Stevens |first2=Benjamin Eldon |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-061006-7 |language=en}}
References
External links
- [https://www.eosafricana.org/announcements/the-fall-after-the-summer-of-solidarity The fall after the summer of solidarity] (essay)
- [https://classicalreception.org/sasha-mae-eccleston-doing-the-right-thing-in-chi-raq-2015/ Sasha-Mae Eccleston: Doing the Right Thing in Chi-Raq (2015)] (essay)
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