This seminar is designed to introduce Ph.D. students from across the humanities to the unique primary sources available in Rome. Working hands-on with materials in the city’s archives and libraries, students will be exposed to the rich potential of a wide range of sources produced from the Middle Ages to the present. Seminar meetings will be held at the Vatican Apostolic Library
Audrey Christiansen
Audrey is a Classics major (with a concentration in Latin) with a supplemental major in Arts and Letters Pre-Health, who comes from a line of talented and accomplished classicists. Her grandfather, Peder, was a long-time professor of Classics at Texas Tech, and her uncle, David, has been a Classics professor in the Penn State University system for twenty years; they have also published multiple works together. Audrey regularly spends one hour each day over summer break translating Latin with Peder, and one hour each day of winter break translating Latin with both David and Peder. Together they have translated different sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses…