Elizabeth Mazurek
Associate Professor
- Office
- 247A O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-6829
- eforbis@nd.edu
Biography
Mazurek regularly teaches courses on Latin literature, Roman history, and classical mythology. Her book, Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire (Teubner 1996), examines the epigraphical language of praise in Roman municipalities during the empire. Her articles focus on women in Roman society and the poetry of Ovid. The University has recognized her for outstanding teaching with a Kaneb Teaching Award.
Frequently Teaches
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Myth of Troy, Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
Research Interests
Roman poetry, Ovid, Roman social history, Roman epigraphy, Latin pedagogy
Representative Publications
Municipal Virtues in the Roman Empire (Teubner 1996), Homer and the Epic Cycle in Ovid's Heroides 16-17 (Transactions of the American Philological Society 2013), Women's Public Image in Italian Honorary Inscriptions (American Journal of Philology 1990).
Education
PhD Classics 1988, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA Classics 1985, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA Greek 1983, Dickinson College
