Dr. Maria Marsilio
Associate Professor of Latin and Classics
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Office - Bellarmine 309
Phone: 610-660-1896
Fax: 610-660-2160
Email: marsilio@sju.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
Dr. Marsilio serves as faculty advisor for all majors and minors in Latin and Classics.
Dr. Marsilio regularly teaches First-Year Latin, Second-Year Latin, First-Year Greek, and Second-Year Greek. In addition, she offers a wide variety of upper-division Latin courses (Historiography, Epic Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Oratory, Drama, Silver and Golden Age Latin Literature). She also teaches Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World for the Honors Program.
Research
Her teaching and research interests include:
- Greek Epic (Homer and Hesiod)
- Greek Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic Poetry
- Roman Lyric Poetry (Catullus and Horace)
- Greek and Roman Drama and Society
- Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome
- Poverty and Hunger in Antiquity
