Stephanie McCarter
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social
Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace and Ovid, with Catullus in-progress). she/her stephaniemccarter.com
I received the amazing news this morning that I have been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. I am still in disbelief, since it felt like even applying was an act of unwarranted audacity. (1/3)
#guggfellows2025
#guggfellows2025
April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I received the amazing news this morning that I have been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. I am still in disbelief, since it felt like even applying was an act of unwarranted audacity. (1/3)
#guggfellows2025
#guggfellows2025
Zoom in on Monday, March 31 if you'd like to hear me discuss translating Latin poetry (including Horace, Ovid, and Catullus)!
March 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Zoom in on Monday, March 31 if you'd like to hear me discuss translating Latin poetry (including Horace, Ovid, and Catullus)!
Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
September 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
This book has become one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful illustration of how books (and the libraries and databanks that house them!) bind us to each other through time—and translation is a key part of that process. Here’s a favorite passage:
September 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
This book has become one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful illustration of how books (and the libraries and databanks that house them!) bind us to each other through time—and translation is a key part of that process. Here’s a favorite passage:
I love my new book cover, a scratchboard illustration by Greek-American artist Evangelia Philippidis, depicting Amanirenas (left, in red), Dido (center, in blue, holding a calla lily), and Boudicca (right, in green, holding a sword), with Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in background. Out in September!
June 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I love my new book cover, a scratchboard illustration by Greek-American artist Evangelia Philippidis, depicting Amanirenas (left, in red), Dido (center, in blue, holding a calla lily), and Boudicca (right, in green, holding a sword), with Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in background. Out in September!
I still have my slide to prove it!
April 27, 2024 at 7:52 PM
I still have my slide to prove it!
Happy to be giving the Morse Lecture this week at the University of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. In-person and online! www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
April 14, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Happy to be giving the Morse Lecture this week at the University of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. In-person and online! www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
Living and working on a campus in rural Tennessee has its challenges, but there are so many days, like today, when it's just gloriously beautiful. (Pic taken today on my walk to the post office, which is in the basement of the building shown.)
March 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Living and working on a campus in rural Tennessee has its challenges, but there are so many days, like today, when it's just gloriously beautiful. (Pic taken today on my walk to the post office, which is in the basement of the building shown.)
New book proofs! I'm so excited about this volume, which brings together many tales about mythological and historical women who ruled. Some are from existing translations, but most are newly done. (I loved translating the Assemblywomen in its entirety -- and lots more!)
February 1, 2024 at 6:25 PM
New book proofs! I'm so excited about this volume, which brings together many tales about mythological and historical women who ruled. Some are from existing translations, but most are newly done. (I loved translating the Assemblywomen in its entirety -- and lots more!)
Latin poetry people, I have found it very helpful, while my students are trying to work out the rhythm of dactylic hexameter, to put up lines of Longfellow alongside lines in Latin with the same scansion.
January 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Latin poetry people, I have found it very helpful, while my students are trying to work out the rhythm of dactylic hexameter, to put up lines of Longfellow alongside lines in Latin with the same scansion.
Excellent reading for today. And, as always with Nina MacLaughlin, lots of wonderful classical references.
December 21, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Excellent reading for today. And, as always with Nina MacLaughlin, lots of wonderful classical references.
My cat Loki is excited that these Ovid paperbacks finally arrived!
November 29, 2023 at 12:21 AM
My cat Loki is excited that these Ovid paperbacks finally arrived!
Very excited to read this when it comes out in February!
November 27, 2023 at 6:56 PM
Very excited to read this when it comes out in February!
Looking forward to being a part of this on Saturday!
November 27, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Looking forward to being a part of this on Saturday!
It's an amazing thing to learn that someone whose work you hold in the highest regard has praised your own. A world of thanks, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social. From www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
November 17, 2023 at 2:39 PM
It's an amazing thing to learn that someone whose work you hold in the highest regard has praised your own. A world of thanks, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social. From www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
OMG! Ann Patchett just plugged my book in a video for her bookstore (Parnassus Books). I now want to post this screenshot everywhere! I just finished “The Dutch House” (which I loved) two nights ago, so this is especially exciting at the moment.
November 15, 2023 at 5:15 AM
OMG! Ann Patchett just plugged my book in a video for her bookstore (Parnassus Books). I now want to post this screenshot everywhere! I just finished “The Dutch House” (which I loved) two nights ago, so this is especially exciting at the moment.
This is part of a team-taught Humanities course (with colleagues from Art History and Religious Studies) on the Ancient Mediterranean, centered around the themes of gender, power, and the "other."
November 8, 2023 at 5:21 PM
This is part of a team-taught Humanities course (with colleagues from Art History and Religious Studies) on the Ancient Mediterranean, centered around the themes of gender, power, and the "other."
I just had the best time taking students to an on-campus exhibition of work by Ming Ying Hong, as part of a unit on Ovid's Metamorphoses. A great way to think though Ovidian ideas of transformation, fragmentation, othering, the gaze, desire, disgust, objectification, and identity. Really moving!
November 8, 2023 at 5:20 PM
I just had the best time taking students to an on-campus exhibition of work by Ming Ying Hong, as part of a unit on Ovid's Metamorphoses. A great way to think though Ovidian ideas of transformation, fragmentation, othering, the gaze, desire, disgust, objectification, and identity. Really moving!
If you are interested in or working on translation and its intersections with adaptation, please submit an abstract for the 2025 SCS panel ("Translation and Creative Adaptation") organized by the Committee on the Translations of Classical Authors. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/14aCX...
November 1, 2023 at 6:53 PM
If you are interested in or working on translation and its intersections with adaptation, please submit an abstract for the 2025 SCS panel ("Translation and Creative Adaptation") organized by the Committee on the Translations of Classical Authors. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/14aCX...
I just signed a contract with Penguin for a new translation of the Ars Amatoria! I might as well do all of Ovid, right? (I won't be starting it for a while since I need to finish Catullus first.)
October 23, 2023 at 8:44 PM
I just signed a contract with Penguin for a new translation of the Ars Amatoria! I might as well do all of Ovid, right? (I won't be starting it for a while since I need to finish Catullus first.)
Enjoying spending this fall break day in deep thought about Homer's Iliad in preparation for my conversation this weekend with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social at the Harrisburg Book Festival. Also very much hoping to see the conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Phuc Tran that immediately follows!
October 16, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Enjoying spending this fall break day in deep thought about Homer's Iliad in preparation for my conversation this weekend with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social at the Harrisburg Book Festival. Also very much hoping to see the conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Phuc Tran that immediately follows!
I don’t normally post about hobbies, but I am pretty proud of this table I refinished today, a 1962 Lane Acclaim that my kids had nearly destroyed. Before and after.
October 15, 2023 at 12:20 AM
I don’t normally post about hobbies, but I am pretty proud of this table I refinished today, a 1962 Lane Acclaim that my kids had nearly destroyed. Before and after.
Awww. I also have a Loki!
October 14, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Awww. I also have a Loki!
Flyer for my talk next week at my beloved alma mater.
September 21, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Flyer for my talk next week at my beloved alma mater.
One fave bit is when Medea tells the men-turned-pigs that their transformation is basically their own fault:
September 14, 2023 at 7:27 PM
One fave bit is when Medea tells the men-turned-pigs that their transformation is basically their own fault: