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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 19h

Please spread the word: the 2026 application cycle for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome is now live! (Yours truly as Director for my final year). www.aarome.org/apply/2026-c...

Classical Summer School

This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary ...

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Zoe Fox @zoesfox.bsky.social · 13d

Lately I've been mulling over lots of questions re: wayfinding in the Subura and how demolition affected this process... Imagine my happy surprise when I discovered that @quidamabo.bsky.social published a fantastic article on wayfinding and subaltern Romans just last month! 👏👏

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · 1d

aww thank you! I've been off of here, so it's nice to come back and see this!

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Apr 11

Ok, talked about controversial things and it seemed to go well? Phew. Such a great audience and great questions.

Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Mar 31

If you're in the Philly area on April 10, I'll be giving a talk at UPenn: www.classics.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Department Colloquium: Evan Jewell (Rutgers University-Camden) "Making Roman Youths at Pompeii: The Ethics of Appropriation from Guglielmo Plüschow to Matteo Della Corte" | Department of Classical Stu...

www.classics.upenn.edu

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Apr 1

For all of the handwringing over the falling quality of students, we should always be willing to be surprised by every new cohort. I currently think I am teaching some of the best Roman history students I've ever had and it's their first ever Roman history class.

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Mar 31

My article, "The Life of Terence, Revisited," has now been published open access in NECJ. I discuss how classicists have historically denied Terence’s blackness out of a belief that “humanistic” or linguistic excellence could not be reconciled with blackness. crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol52/i...

"The Life of Terence, Revisited" by Hannah Čulík-Baird

Suetonius’ biography of Publius Terentius Afer, i.e., Terence the African (c. 195-159 BCE), identifies the Roman comic poet as a former slave from Carthage, describing him physically as a slim man of ...

crossworks.holycross.edu

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Mar 31

If you're in the Philly area on April 10, I'll be giving a talk at UPenn: www.classics.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Department Colloquium: Evan Jewell (Rutgers University-Camden) "Making Roman Youths at Pompeii: The Ethics of Appropriation from Guglielmo Plüschow to Matteo Della Corte" | Department of Classical Stu...

www.classics.upenn.edu

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Feb 21

Lewis' Cleopatra also seems to have a role in Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's "Cleopatra at the Mall" (2024) #AncientBlackness www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | Cleopatra at the Mall | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Feb 21

In 2020, Margaret and Martha Malamud published an article on Edmonia Lewis' Cleopatra, discussing the sculpture's dialogue with the Cleopatra of William Wetmore Story #AncientBlackness muse.jhu.edu/article/815654

Project MUSE - The Petrification of Cleopatra in Nineteenth Century Art

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Feb 21

Lewis' "The Death of Cleopatra" (1876) shocked contemporary audiences for its realistic depiction of death, exhibited to great acclaim at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The sculpture was eventually used to mark a horse's grave at a racetrack #AncientBlackness

americanart.si.edu/artwork/deat...

Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra, carved 1876, marble, 63 x 31 1/4 x 46 in. (160.0 x 79.4 x 116.8 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois, 1994.17

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · Dec 4

My article “Depathologizing the Bisexual Orpheus” is out in Helios!

It’s my first piece specifically on the classical canon, and uses a mix of psychology of sexuality, queer theory, and translation theory to make sense of how scholars have treated Ovid’s Orpheus as bi.

Hit me up for a copy!

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Feb 15

Firing everyone isn’t about efficiency, just like gutting the liberal arts wasn’t about budgets, just like crushing anti-genocide protesters wasn’t about safety

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 17

I took my Cleopatra and Roman history classes to this exhibition on Friday and it was stunning--and made my Cleopatra students really think about how to approach the question of her race and its reception in different periods. Really excellent work by Akili Tommasino.

Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Feb 16

[16] For today's contribution to #AncientBlackness, I'm posting the online catalogue for "Flight into Egypt" exhibit rn on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. An incredible collection of Black thinkers, artists, and scholars engaging ancient Egypt.

www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition now on view at The Met

www.metmuseum.org

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 11

We'll be in Etruria (including having an active dig!) and from June 16-21, then the bay of Naples from June 22-27,
then Rome from June 28-July 18. (Many thanks to all of you who joined us last year!)

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 11

Academic friends: If you have the time and volition, and want to link up with the AAR Classical Summer School, and possibly give a guest presentation, or site/excavation tour, please message me here or email: evan.jewellATrutgers.edu

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 7

Note: due to illness, this event has been postponed until later this Spring.

Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 4

Philly area historians, esp. on US immigration and citizenship history - my department is hosting a seminar with Dr. Hardeep Dhillon (UPenn), "An Immigration Story: Children in the Era of Asian Exclusion", this Friday! If you're interested, please email me to RSVP & for the pre-circulated chapter.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 4

Extremely pertinent to what is going on right now...

Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 4

Philly area historians, esp. on US immigration and citizenship history - my department is hosting a seminar with Dr. Hardeep Dhillon (UPenn), "An Immigration Story: Children in the Era of Asian Exclusion", this Friday! If you're interested, please email me to RSVP & for the pre-circulated chapter.

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Feb 2

Yes, fewer features, but honestly, so much easier to use. Sit simplex!

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Jan 23

Anyone else had so many issues with Perusall? This year it seems impossible to use. So I tried out Hypothesis - so much easier to use with Canvas! Wow.

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Jan 21

rescuing Romans from the idea of fascism is more important to some than confronting the real and material threat of fascism

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Jan 21

god bless the Oxford English Dictionary

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Jan 17

Most excited about the charcoal and incised graffiti (the former, so often not recorded in earlier excavations and now lost!).

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Jan 17

As someone who's been obsessed with domestic baths at Pompeii for a long time (one day I'll get that article on the baths in the House of the Menander out!), this is so exciting.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests

Thermal bath complex is latest discovery among ruins of Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius eruption in AD79

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Virginia L. Campbell @vlcampbell.bsky.social · Jan 17

Bath time! Such a stunning example of private luxury in #Pompeii. I think we're going to need a lot of bubbles. #AncientRome

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa

A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social · Jan 16

One thing I'm going to tell/ask my students about using AI in their writing this semester: if everyone's using AI to write for them, then how will your writing stand out from the crowd? What will make your essay, personal statement, your sales pitch, [insert genre], unique?

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