Evan Jewell
@quidamabo.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University - Camden. Roman history, epigraphy, archaeology inter alia. Views are my own. He/him.
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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November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...
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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! 👏👏
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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! 👏👏
Ok, talked about controversial things and it seemed to go well? Phew. Such a great audience and great questions.
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
April 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ok, talked about controversial things and it seemed to go well? Phew. Such a great audience and great questions.
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.
April 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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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 ...
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March 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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...
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
March 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you're in the Philly area on April 10, I'll be giving a talk at UPenn: www.classics.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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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
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February 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Lewis' Cleopatra also seems to have a role in Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's "Cleopatra at the Mall" (2024) #AncientBlackness www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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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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February 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
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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...
americanart.si.edu/artwork/deat...
February 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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...
americanart.si.edu/artwork/deat...
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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!
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!
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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!
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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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
February 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
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.
[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/...
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
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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.
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
February 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
Note: due to illness, this event has been postponed until later this Spring.
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.
February 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Note: due to illness, this event has been postponed until later this Spring.
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.
February 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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.
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.
January 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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rescuing Romans from the idea of fascism is more important to some than confronting the real and material threat of fascism
January 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
rescuing Romans from the idea of fascism is more important to some than confronting the real and material threat of fascism
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...
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
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January 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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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...
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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
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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?
January 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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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abstracts due Jan 9! #ResDiff6
🚨CFP for #ResDiff6 is now available!🚨
Res Difficiles 6 will take place on 21st March 2025 with Professor Sarah Derbew as our keynote speaker.
Submit an abstract by 9th January 2025:
resdifficiles.com/cfp/
Res Difficiles 6 will take place on 21st March 2025 with Professor Sarah Derbew as our keynote speaker.
Submit an abstract by 9th January 2025:
resdifficiles.com/cfp/
CFP: Res Diff 6
CALL FOR PAPERSRes Difficiles 6Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Joseph Romero (TAMUC)Date: Friday March 21, 2024Platform: Webinar S...
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January 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
abstracts due Jan 9! #ResDiff6
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if anyone on bsky was at the #AIASCS slavery panel, here's a link to the recent piece by @maiakotro.bsky.social I mentioned:
Race, Desire, and the Objectification of Theory
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-20-no-1-...
Race, Desire, and the Objectification of Theory
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-20-no-1-...
January 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
if anyone on bsky was at the #AIASCS slavery panel, here's a link to the recent piece by @maiakotro.bsky.social I mentioned:
Race, Desire, and the Objectification of Theory
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-20-no-1-...
Race, Desire, and the Objectification of Theory
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-20-no-1-...
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Jessica Clark (@koriannon.bsky.social) and I will be hosting a panel on race, gender, and warfare at the 16th Celtic Classical Conference in beautiful Coimbra! Check out the CFP below and please do get in touch if you have questions or want to submit an abstract:
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November 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Jessica Clark (@koriannon.bsky.social) and I will be hosting a panel on race, gender, and warfare at the 16th Celtic Classical Conference in beautiful Coimbra! Check out the CFP below and please do get in touch if you have questions or want to submit an abstract:
www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
This just passed SCS/AIA meeting certainly hammered home how quickly one goes from being an academic teenager to adult… scary, but good?
January 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This just passed SCS/AIA meeting certainly hammered home how quickly one goes from being an academic teenager to adult… scary, but good?
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then this afternoon, I'm moderating the slavery panel, featuring @chancebonar.bsky.social, @javalac.bsky.social, @platanoclassics.bsky.social #AIASCS
January 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
then this afternoon, I'm moderating the slavery panel, featuring @chancebonar.bsky.social, @javalac.bsky.social, @platanoclassics.bsky.social #AIASCS