Emily C. Mitchell

Office Address: Cocke Hall B005

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Research Interests

My primary research interests focus on Latin literature of the Roman empire; Latin epigraphy; Roman social history; slavery (especially in comparative perspective); memory, commemoration, and monumentality; classical reception.

Selected Publications

Book

Remembering the Enslaved and Emancipated in Latin Verse Epitaphs, Epigrams, and Poems of Consolation (provisional title). (Forthcoming).

Articles and Chapters

Under review. “A tale of two empires: the Behistun inscription of Darius I and the Res Gestae Divi Augusti.” Revised and resubmitted to Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte; currently awaiting final decision.

“LA.NO.priv.2025.10.01.” U.S. Epigraphy Project (USEP). Digital corpus hosted by Brown University: https://usepigraphy.brown.edu/projects/usep/collections/. (Forthcoming).

“From beyond the grave: ‘ventriloquizing’ the enslaved and the emancipated in Latin verse epitaphs.” In Chance Bonar and Julia Lindenlaub, eds., Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), 177–201 (2024).

“Constructing the ‘good freedwoman’: a reinterpretation of the epitaph of Allia Potestas (CLE 1988 = CIL VI 37965).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 227:253–264, (2023).

“reputatio”; “reses”; “resupino.” Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. XI, Fasc. II. Berlin: De Gruyter, (2023).

“reparator.” Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. XI, Fasc. II. Berlin: De Gruyter, (2021).

Personal

I completed my B.A. (Hons), Literae Humaniores, First Class, (2017), and M.St., Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature, (2018) at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. In 2025, I completed my Ph.D. in Classical Philology at Harvard University. Dissertation: “Remembering the Enslaved and the Emancipated in Latin Verse Epitaphs, Epigrams, and Poems of Consolation.”