# Curriculum Vitae Rachel Lilley Love email: [rachel\_love@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:rachel_love@fas.harvard.edu) 217 Boylston Hall office phone: +1-617-495-1709 Department of the Classics Harvard University Cambridge, Ma. USA, 02138 **Employment** 2019- Assistant Professor of the Classics, Harvard University **Education** 2019 Yale University, Ph.D., Classical Philology Dissertation: Writing After Livy: Historical Epitome in the Livian Tradition Supervisor: Christina S. Kraus Readers: Irene Peirano Garrison (Yale), David S. Levene (NYU) 2018 Recognized student, Trinity Term, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University (MacMillan International Dissertation Fellow) Sponsor: Rhiannon Ash (Merton) 2013 Tulane University, B.A., Latin and Greek, summa cum laude with departmental honors **Other Qualifications and Training** 2015 Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Pre-Modern World (YISAP, now Archaia), Graduate Qualification 2017 Digital Latin Library, XML Digital Encoding Workshop, University of Oklahoma **Research Interests:** Latin historiography; historical epitome; Livy; Florus; The Livian Periochae; Latin prose; literary culture of the Roman Republic and its legacy under the Principate; literary fragments and theories of fragmentation; influence of classical historiography on early modern thought **Publications:** (under review) *Writing after Livy*, monograph. Submitted to Oxford University Press. (2021) "[In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written Republic](https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445086_004)" in *Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography*, edd. Aske Damtoft Poulsen and Arne Jönsson. Brill, *Historiography of Rome and Its Empire*, vol. 9. (pp. 40-69). (2023) [Aeneas’ Trousseau: Gender(ed) Exchange in *Aeneid* 1](https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913469). *TAPA* 153.2: 431-458. (Under Review) “Deviant Collaboration: Aulus Hirtius’ 8th Book of the *Commentarii de Bello Gallico*” in *Ancient Collaboration* edd. Thomas Nelson, Talitha Keary, and Max Leventhal, University of Cambridge Press (under review) “Plinies in the Wind”. Submitted to *Classical Quarterly.* **In Preparation:** "Celtic Stereotypes in Ancient Greek and Latin Texts", contribution to exhibition catalogue, *The Many Faces of Celtic Art, from Antiquity to the Present* at Harvard Art Museums, Spring 2026. Under contract. "Sallust and the Sound of Sarcasm" chapter for *Rhetoric and Historiography, New Perspectives*, edd. Emily Baragwanath, Andrew Feldherr, and Luca Grillo “Gauls Dead and Dying: Livy’s Gallogreeks” article project “All’s Fair in Prose and War: Vegetius at the Limits of Latin Intratext” chapter for *Poeticis magis decora? Latin Prose and the Limits of Intertextuality* edd. Scott DiGiulio and Dominic Machado Edited Volume on Florus, co-edited with Jared Hudson, *Historiography of the Roman Empire Series*, Brill Press **Presentations and Invited Papers** "Gauls Dead and Dying: Livy's Gallogreeks" Harvard Standing Committee on Women Symposium, Spring 2024 "Sallust and the Sound of Sarcams, Revisited" Rhetoric and Historiography, New Perspective, Rome Spring 2023 “What Did I Just Read?: Literacy, Texts, and Reading in the Ancient World” Massachusetts Junior Classical League, Classics Day, Fall 2022 “Sallust and the Sound of Sarcasm”, Celtic Conference of Classics, Lyon, Summer 2022 “Colluding with the Enemy: Aulus Hirtius’ 8th Book of the Commentarii de Bello Gallico” Laurence Seminar, Cambridge, Summer 2021 “Broken Bodies and Severed Limbs: Tacitus’ Fragmentary Methodology” Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, Tacitus and the Incomplete, 2021 “Exemplarity at War: Reading Frontinus and Vegetius” Exemplarity Workshop, Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities, Oriel, Oxford, Spring 2019 “Epitome v. History: The Rise of Classical History” UC Boulder, Spring 2019 "Epitome in the Age of Empire" Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, Didactic Prose, 2019 "Bad History: Florus, Livy, and the Invention of Great History" Winckelmann's Victims, RELIC University of Ghent, Fall 2018, "In Short, The Republic: (Re)Writing the Republic in Imperial Historiography" Uses of the Past in History, Lund University, Spring 2018 "Born Digital: Digital Texts and Editing" and response paper, Philologia Sacra et Profana, Yale University, Fall 2017 **Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes** Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2021-2022 Young Researcher Scholarship, Fondation Hardt, Summer 2020 (postponed for Covid) Deborah Roberts Prize in Teaching Excellence 2019 MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018 Yale Digital Humanities Lab, Seed Grant: Corpus Creation, Fall 2017 Beinecke Rare Books Library Research Fellow 2017 Yale Digital Humanities Lab, Seed Grant 2016 The Judah Touro Medal, Classics Department, Tulane University, 2013 Departmental Classics Prize, Classics Department, Tulane University, 2013 **Other Projects** Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Premodern Race Seminar, co-organizer, 2020- Harvard University Ancient Studies Initiative, Executive Committee Member, 2019- **FAS Committee Service** Harvard Hoopes Prize Committee, 2024 Harvard Commencement Oration Committee 2023- **Undergraduate Theses Supervised** Joseph Kester, Classics and History, TBA Jonathan Yuan, Classics and Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Ad Astra: A Modern Adaptation of Hercules' Twelve Labor