MOLLY PASCO-PRANGER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF CLASSICS

Dr. Pasco-Pranger taught Classics at the University of Puget Sound (1998-2002) and Wesleyan University (2002-2006) before joining the University of Mississippi faculty in 2006; she has served as department chair since 2013. In 2018 she was awarded the Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen.

Dr. Pasco-Pranger's earliest research focused on Ovid’s Fasti and its engagement with the Roman religious and political calendar and culminated in a book Founding the Year: Ovid’s Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (Brill 2006). She has since published several articles on gender, writing, and desire in Roman amatory verse, and another set of articles centering on the literary and social persona of Cato the Elder. This last is connected to an ongoing research interest in masculinity and aging in ancient Rome. Her most recent article treats women’s public nudity in the early Roman empire in connection with a set of ritual contexts and social spaces. She is currently working on a set of two very damaged poems found in a medieval manuscript that may trace back to female poet of the age of Domitian.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Gender in Classical Roman Empire