Virginia Clark
Profile
I received my Bachelors degree from Wadham College, Oxford in 2008 and came to Princeton with the intention of working on Greek history, after I completed a senior thesis on the foundation of Megalopolis in the 4th century BC.
In the last three years I have drifted in the direction of Roman historiography and am currently working on a dissertation on the role of landscape in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. Reluctant to abandon Greece completely, I have chosen to work largely on Livy’s fourth and fifth decades, examining how descriptions of landscape are used to reinforce the structure of the narrative and provide insights into and judgements on the growth of Roman hegemony.
I greatly enjoy teaching, and have moved on from precepting in Roman history to teaching intermediate Latin this fall, where we are reading Catullus and Caesar.