Alexandra Schultz Department of the Classics, Harvard University 204 Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA PhD in Classical Philology, 2014–expected May 2021 Dissertation: “Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea of Greece” Committee: Paul Kosmin (co-chair), Richard Thomas (co-chair), Ann Blair, Johanna Hanink Special exam fields: Euripides (distinction), Ovid (distinction), Ancient Libraries (distinction) University of Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford, UK MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, distinction, 2012 Dissertation: “A Selection of Edited Literary and Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus” Coursework: Papyrology, Ancient Comedy, Comparative Philology Brown University, Providence, RI BA in Classics and Computer Science, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2011 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Greek literature (especially lyric and drama), Latin epic and elegy, Cultural and intellectual history (especially ancient scholarship and book culture), Feminist theory, Papyrology, Language pedagogy PUBLICATIONS “Language and Agency in Sappho’s Brothers Poem” (13,000 words), forthcoming in Helios Winner of the 2020 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize Two additional literary fragments and a private loan contract, forthcoming in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri "P. Oxy. 5272. Epictetus, Discourses 2.17.22–24." The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 81: 73–74. 2016. "P. Oxy. 5273. Epictetus, Discourses 2.22.37–23.1." The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 81: 74–76. 2016. SELECT FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University 2020–2021 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize 2020 Merit and Term-time Research Fellowship, Harvard University 2019–2020 Harvard Horizons Scholar 2019 Jens Aubrey Westengard Fund for Research and Study, Harvard University 2019 Graduate Student Council Conference Grant, Harvard University 2019 Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University 2018, 2019 Charles P. Segal Fellowship for Research and Travel, Harvard University 2016, 2017, 2019 Summer School Tuition Fellowship, Harvard University 2015 US-UK Fulbright Scholar 2011–2012 Alexandra Schultz CV, pg. 2 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Libraries in Stone: Book Lists and Literary Identity in the Late Hellenistic Polis," MATERIA III: New Approaches to Material Text in the Ancient World, New York, NY, April 2019. “Graphic Order from Alpha to Omega: Alphabetization in Hellenistic Inscriptions,” AIA/SCS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2019. “The Alexandrian Mouseion in the Third Century and the Anatomy of an Institution,” Harvard- Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History, Cambridge, MA, February 2018. “Reading between the Brothers in Sappho’s ‘Brothers Poem,’” SCS Annual Meeting, Toronto, January 2017. “The Great Mouseion: Third Century Alexandria and Ptolemaic Cultural Policy,” Cupis volitare per auras: Books, libraries and textual transmission from the ancient to the medieval world, Bari, October 2016. PUBLIC LECTURES “Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea of Greece,” Harvard Horizons Symposium, April 2019 (link to talk: https://youtu.be/Jg0BxdxGu9U). WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS “The Science of Lists and the History of Science in Early Modern Europe,” Information in the Early Modern World, Harvard University, July 2020. “Non-traditional assignments and classroom activities,” Classics Teaching Colloquium, Harvard University, February 2020. “Religious Institutions, Secular Libraries?,” Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space, Harvard University, April 2019. “What is ‘literature’?,” Literary Theory Reading Group, Harvard University, March 2019. “Hellenistic Intellectual Institutions and the Invention of Greek Literature,” East Mediterranean and West Asian Connections, Harvard University, November 2017. “Hellenistic Libraries and their Origins, Real and Fictitious,” Memories of Kingship in the Hellenistic World, Harvard University, April 2015. TEACHING AWARDS Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times, Harvard University 2020 Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize, Harvard University 2018 (link to interview: https://ablconnect.harvard.edu/book/paper-outline-workshop) Alexandra Schultz CV, pg. 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard University, Cambridge, MA As course designer/instructor of record: Books and Libraries in the Greco-Roman World, Spring 2018 Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature, Fall 2017 Beginning Greek, Fall 2016 As teaching fellow/section leader: Ancient Greek Warfare, Spring 2020 (remote instruction March-May 2020) Virgil’s Iliadic Aeneid, Spring 2020 (remote instruction March-May 2020) History of Latin Literature I, Spring 2019 Introduction to the Ancient Greek World, Fall 2018 The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece, Fall 2017 Brown University, Providence, RI As teaching assistant for Computer Science Department: Introduction to Programming and Computer Science, Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures, Introduction to Computer Systems, Introduction to Software Engineering, 2009-2011 INVITED GUEST TEACHING “Tools and Methods: Papyri and Manuscripts,” in Introduction to the Ancient Roman World (taught by Harry Morgan), Harvard University, March 2020. “The Forms of the Book: Tablets, Scrolls, Rolls, and Codices,” in Harvard’s Greatest Hits: The Most Important, Rarest, and Most Valuable Books in Houghton Library (taught by David Stern), Harvard University, September 2018. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS HOSTED OR ORGANIZED As co-organizer: “Eos READS for Black Lives,” Harvard Classics Department, September 2020 As co-organizer: “Local and global: the literary landscape and the politics of place in the Hellenistic world,” Harvard Classics graduate conference, March 2018 As chair of panel: “The Sense(s) of History: Apocalyptic Literature and Its Temporalities,” Harvard Divinity School, November 2017 ACADEMIC SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Representative on Committee for Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism, Harvard Classics Department, 2020–present Participant in Digital Humanities Vase-Imaging Project, Harvard University, 2020–present Visiting Graduate Student at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, 2019 Co-organizer of Harvard Classics Works in Progress, 2017–2019 Founder and organizer of Homer reading group, Harvard University, 2015–2019 Member of Book History and Early Modern European Intellectual/Cultural History Seminars, Harvard University, 2017–2018 Copy editor for Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 2017 Alexandra Schultz CV, pg. 4 WORK EXPERIENCE Microsoft Corporation, Software Development Engineer, 2012–2014 Microsoft Corporation, Software Development Engineer Intern, 2010 LANGUAGES Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian (reading only), Modern Greek (intermediate), Korean REFERENCES Paul J. Kosmin Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History Harvard University, Department of Classics [email protected] Richard F. Thomas George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics Harvard University, Department of Classics [email protected] Ann Blair Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Harvard University, Department of History [email protected] Johanna Hanink Associate Professor of Classics Brown University, Department of Classics [email protected] .