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Stella J. Fritzell
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she/they | 🏺PhD candidate | 🥋faculty | queer, feminist, mythologist, philologist, digital scholar | 2024-25 AAUW American fellow
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Someday, someone will tell me to get serious with my slides.

That day was not Saturday.

Many thanks to the Maine Classical Association for inviting me to present on my research at their fall meeting this past weekend!
Presentation slide with the section title “Marshalling Maenads … : The Haliae as Foreign Adversaries”. The background is a screen grab from the movie Barbie, featuring Ryan Gosling as Ken posing for a mug shot.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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After a very long day of travel, I'm looking forward to giving this paper tomorrow morning! It's a new foray for me into some Early Christian material (even if it does begin with myth). If you're at #CAAS2025, I'd love to see you!
Slide for a conference presentation with the title "Bad Virginity in the Story of Aura: Nonnos Dion. 48.238-978".
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I’ll be sharing some of my research on epichoric Maenad myth in Argos in what is looking to be a very interesting #AIASCS Myth panel tomorrow morning (Sunday, 8:00am)!

It is early, but I’ll have slides *and* a handout. Please consider joining us!
Screen shot of a title slide for a Power Point presentation. Text at the top of the slide reads: “SCS 2025 | Philadelphia, PA | Sunday, January 5 | Myth”. Below is a background image of bacchic celebrants and the title, which reads: “Arriving from Elsewhere: Reconciling Maenad Myth and Argive History”. The name of the presenter, Stella J Fritzell and her contact information is printed below. In the bottom left is a reference for the background image and its license: IDAI 1080121. A screenshot of a conference program agenda for the panel “SCS-70: Myth”, which is a hybrid panel to take place from 8:00 am to 11:00 am in Salon I. Alice Gaber will speak first on an ecocritical reading of Greek myth, followed by Stella Fritzell on Maenad myth and Argive history, then Katherine Hsu on the architecture of “kleos” in myth, and finally Collin Hilton on allegorical uses of myth in Neoplatonism.
January 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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At CAAS 2024 and looking for some recommendations? I’ll be kicking off the session on Greco-Roman Art and Architecture at 2:30pm this afternoon with a paper on Amazon Monument and Myth in Athens. I would love to see you there!
Power point title slide. An image of a sculptural freeze of a battle spans the middle of the slide, with the presentation title below: “Embodying Foreign Bodies: Amazon Monument and Myth in Attica”.
October 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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One of the best views I’ve had from a conference hotel (excepting DLF 2018 in Las Vegas). Not a bad way to kick of CAAS 2024, and not a bad place to make last-minute adjustments to my slides.
View from an upper floor, looking over a park square to an intersection with shapes and a church.
October 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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What better way to prep a paper on Dionysus than with a skin-contact Sauvignon Blanc? (This is a seriously divine wine).
Wine glass partially filled on a wood table. There is a table lamp behind it and a notebook to the side.
July 5, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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My favorite thing about Hermes is that he will boop my nose if he thinks I’m not paying enough attention to him.
Top down image of cat looking up at camera. Patterned rug in background.
June 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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LESBIANTIQUITY, a project that I've been a small part of, is officially live and will be updating weekly through 2024!

This zine-anthology of Greek & Latin writings aims to present all surviving texts from classical antiquity that depict homosexual or homoerotic activity between women. (1/)
Outline of two women in front of a rainbow background. The title "Lesbiantiquity" is printed vertically on the left with the web address www.lesbiantiquity.lgbt vertically on the right. A list of 22 Greek and Latin authors is printed down the center. Outline of two women in front of a rainbow background. The title "Lesbiantiquity" is printed in front with the web address www.lesbiantiquity.lgbt.
January 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Come hear me attempt to collect my (many) thoughts on Maenad myth, meaning, and local significance in Argos at CAAS tomorrow (10/7) at 8:00 am.

I was very excited to find Maenad imagery at the Penn Museum this evening.

AncientBluesky ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Close up photo of a section of a Roman sarcophagus featuring a Maenad with a drum surrounded by other festive members of a Dionysian procession.
October 7, 2023 at 1:31 AM
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Sad to hear about the Sycamore Gap tree (www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...). Strange to think that I took some of the last pictures of it this summer.
Photo of the Sycamore Gap tree standing along a stone wall between two hills.
September 29, 2023 at 1:11 AM
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I found myself scrolling through reviews of the local Starbucks, and let’s just say that I have questions (and concerns).
Screen shot of a 4/5 star review. The last sentence is highlighted and reads, “great staff even if they wouldn’t let me borrow their hammer.”
August 27, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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I can’t help but wonder what our librarians make of my requesting sources on Indigenous methodologies for my dissertation on Greek mythology.

I am also humbly asking for the incorporation of more vibrance in the cover design of Classics texts.
Stack of three brightly colored books on indigenous methodologies in front of a laptop.
August 3, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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I expressed my personal feelings about “think, pair, share” to my ILiADS 2023 project team today. They produced this:
UNO Draw 25 meme template reading, “do a think / pair / share or draw 25”, second half of image shows a man holding many UNO cards, labeled “Stella”
July 27, 2023 at 7:52 PM