Emma Ianni
Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Associations
Classical and Medieval Studies
Current Courses
Fall Semester 2025
Elementary Ancient Greek II
A continuation of GRK 101. Prerequisite(s): GRK 101.
Constructing Gender and Imperialism in Rome
Imperial power in the Roman Empire, and after, was rooted in patriarchy and worked by defining and perpetuating acceptable identities for men and women. With an emphasis on the treatment of women and the operation of power, we study how gender was imagined and constructed in readings such as Vergilâ…
Constructing Gender and Imperialism in Rome
This course covers the same material as LATN 201 but is designed for students who have completed two or more years of college-level Latin. May be repeated with permission of the instructor.
Winter Semester 2026
Movie Theaters of War
In the Iliad, Homer transformed the Trojan War into a spectacle. Today, the popularity of war movies reveals how deeply these ancient notions of war as spectacle have shaped our understanding of armed conflict. This course analyzes war films through the lens of pre-modern treatments of war as specta…