About Miriam

Miriam Kamil is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin language and literature. She earned her PhD from Harvard University in May, 2022 with a dissertation titled, “Personification and Emotion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Her dissertation was advised by Richard F. Thomas, with additional supervision by Richard J. Tarrant, Greg Nagy, and Barbara W. Boyd. She has also taught at Bryn Mawr and Hamilton College.

Her research interests include Roman poetry, especially epic and elegy, as well as Greek literature, textual transmission, and modern queer and deviant receptions of classical literature. Her current book project, Queer and Deviant Classics (forthcoming, University of California Press), examines subversive uses of the classics by marginalized communities in the modern era.

Contact: mlkamil@stanford.edu