Ph.D. Columbia University (2024)<\/p>\n
MA Columbia University (2019)<\/p>\n
BA Cornell University (2017)<\/p>\n
Emma Ianni is a scholar of ancient Greek literature and history. Her research explores the relationship between tragedy and historiography, with particular attention to the intersections of gender, democracy, and war. At Bates, she offers courses on Greek language and literature,\u00a0Greek history, and classical reception through film.<\/p>\n
Her current book project examines the role of gender in the construction of democratic narratives in classical Athens, particularly\u00a0in Thucydides and tragedy. This study challenges previous assumptions on the historian’s omission\u00a0of gender, recasting it as a deliberate strategy rather than a generic feature. By integrating classical reception as a crucial philological tool, the book models a methodological framework for reading silences and erasures in ancient\u00a0literature. Ianni is\u00a0also interested in classical reception and public humanities, examining how the ancient Greco-Roman past is mobilized in modern political and cultural discourse — from institutional formations such as democracy and constitutionalism to its appropriation by diverse ideological movements across the contemporary spectrum.<\/p>\n
Before coming to Bates in 2025, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Dickinson College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1884,"featured_media":7925,"template":"","class_list":["post-7308","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7308\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}