Professor Lauren Curtis teaches Ancient Greek and Latin language, literature, history, and culture at Bard College. Some of her regular courses include The Roman World: An Introduction, Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World, Beginning Latin, and Beginning Ancient Greek. Her research focuses on dance, music, and the performing arts in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Latin poetry and Roman intellectual culture of the first century BCE. Her first book, Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Her most recent book, Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (co-edited with Naomi Weiss) will be published in August 2021. She is the author of articles in TAPA, Classical Philology, Arethusa, and Vergilius, is a member of the international research group IDA (Improntas de danza antigua: textos, cuerpos, imágenes, movimiento), and is a trustee of the International Ovidian Society. Professor Curtis holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Classics from Harvard University. She is always eager to meet students who are interested in learning more about the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds.