Lucy Grinnan
Class: 2022
Program: MA in ECS
Area(s) of Interest: Late antique and medieval women's Latin writing; desire and embodiment in ancient literature; women's liturgical history; dance and choreography; spoken Latin
Lucy Grinnan graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College in February of 2020 with a Classics-Dance joint major and Religion minor. Lucy’s undergraduate senior work focused on the reception of Sappho in the form of a twenty-minute dance piece called “Sentimentalia” and a ninety-page thesis entitled “My Thoughts Are Two: Sappho, Desire, and the Divided Self in Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, Ovid’s Epistula Sapphus, and 1970’s Lesbian Poetry.” Throughout and following undergrad, Lucy has worked on ecological farms in Vermont and Virginia. When not pondering the body in ancient literature, Lucy can be found reading contemporary poetry, making ferments, swimming in Lake Michigan, and daydreaming about raising chickens.