Carole Elizabeth Newlands (born 1949) is a scholar of Latin literature and culture. She is a distinguished professor and associate chair of undergraduate studies at the

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Career

Newlands joined the faculty of classics at the

in 2009, after previously teaching at

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, the

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, and

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. In the summer of 2010, she was selected as the Visiting NEH Professor of Classics at the

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. Her responsibilities included teaching

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...

's works to students in their classics department. She has also served on the editorial board of the ''

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'' and on the Board of Directors for the

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from 2009 until 2012. In her last year on the board, Newlands edited "''Statius Silvae Book II''" through the

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which focused on Roman culture. She also published a book titled "''Statius, Poet between Rome and Naples''" which examined the poetry of

Statius Publius Papinius Statius (Greek language, Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος; , ; ) was a Latin poetry, Latin poet of the 1st century CE. His surviving poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the ''Thebaid (Latin poem), Theb ...

and the shifting attitudes to Hellenism, gender and Roman imperialism. In 2019, Newlands was named a distinguished professor of classics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

References

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