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Fowler Merle-Smith Fellowship  - American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2019-2020

Fowler Merle-Smith Fellowship

Advisor: Angeliki Tzanetou, Ph.D.
Title of Dissertation: Anthropophagy and Cannibalism in Ancient Greek Literature

Classical Association of Middle West and South

Society for Classical Studies

Women's Classical Caucus

CLAR 1115 Elementary Latin I

CLAR 2200 Epic Poetry

CLAR 3210 Classical & Near Eastern Myths

Christopher Gipson received his B.A. in Classics from Loyola Marymount University in 2013, his Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics from University of California - Los  Angeles in 2014, and M.A. in Classics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. He received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022, writing a dissertation titled "Cannibalism and Anthropophagy in Ancient Greek Literature". While not doing research, he enjoys spending his time listening to experimental music, reading ecological fiction novels, and drawing. His research interests generally touch upon the macabre in ancient Greek literature, ranging from Attic drama, Hellenistic works, and Imperial Greek poetry.

Greco-Roman Religion

Satyr-Play

Greek Tragedy

Greek Literature

Greek Mythology

Imperial Greek Poetry

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Latin

Modern Greek

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“Chew Before You Swallow: Demeter’s Consumption of Pelops in Pindar and Lycophron”

A Tribe Called Fish: Imperial Power through Ethnography and Cataloguing in Oppian’s Halieutica

“Teaching with Eleanor Dickey’s Learn Latin from the Romans”

“Boeotian Cultic Associations in Oedipus at Colonus”

Instructor of Classics and Archaeology

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