Stephanie McCarter
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social
Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace and Ovid, with Catullus in-progress). she/her stephaniemccarter.com
I'm not on here much, but I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming Catullus translation, featuring an amazing painting by Eduardo Mata Icasa (called "Nature of Emptiness"). As soon as I saw the painting, I knew no other work of art could more perfectly capture how I think about Catullus.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm not on here much, but I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming Catullus translation, featuring an amazing painting by Eduardo Mata Icasa (called "Nature of Emptiness"). As soon as I saw the painting, I knew no other work of art could more perfectly capture how I think about Catullus.
Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit!
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The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources (Committee on Translations) | Society for Classical Studies
Call for Abstracts: The Indirect Method: Translations as SourcesTranslation Panel, annual SCS meeting in Philadelphia, 2027Proposed by: SCS Committee on Translations of Classical AuthorsOrganizers: Sc...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit!
www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
A must-read about the cuts to the NEH and their impact on the study of the ancient world. open.substack.com/pub/pastsimp...
Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25)
Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)
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April 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A must-read about the cuts to the NEH and their impact on the study of the ancient world. open.substack.com/pub/pastsimp...
I received the amazing news this morning that I have been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. I am still in disbelief, since it felt like even applying was an act of unwarranted audacity. (1/3)
#guggfellows2025
#guggfellows2025
April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I received the amazing news this morning that I have been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. I am still in disbelief, since it felt like even applying was an act of unwarranted audacity. (1/3)
#guggfellows2025
#guggfellows2025
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KEY PASSAGES TALK: TRANSLATING OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
Join us for a talk by Stephanie McCarter about her tactics for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body into English verse.
4/17, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB
Learn more: bit.ly/McCarter-IHC
Join us for a talk by Stephanie McCarter about her tactics for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body into English verse.
4/17, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB
Learn more: bit.ly/McCarter-IHC
Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
In this talk, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid’s poetic and metrical effects int...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
KEY PASSAGES TALK: TRANSLATING OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
Join us for a talk by Stephanie McCarter about her tactics for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body into English verse.
4/17, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB
Learn more: bit.ly/McCarter-IHC
Join us for a talk by Stephanie McCarter about her tactics for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body into English verse.
4/17, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB
Learn more: bit.ly/McCarter-IHC
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Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
I absolutely loved my visit to Pomona College the past couple of days, and I am so happy to see this article. In one of these quotes I am myself quoting Patricia Salzman-Mitchell’s wonderful book “A Web of Fantasies.” I am really indebted to her formulation of the female gaze in Ovid.
Humanities studio presents Stephanie McCarter on female agency in the classics - The Student Life
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Humanities studio presents Stephanie McCarter on female agency in the classics - The Student Life
On April 3, Stephanie McCarter spoke for the Humanities Studio’s Connections series about restoring female agency and voice in literary translation. She is most well-known for being the first woman in...
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April 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I absolutely loved my visit to Pomona College the past couple of days, and I am so happy to see this article. In one of these quotes I am myself quoting Patricia Salzman-Mitchell’s wonderful book “A Web of Fantasies.” I am really indebted to her formulation of the female gaze in Ovid.
Zoom in on Monday, March 31 if you'd like to hear me discuss translating Latin poetry (including Horace, Ovid, and Catullus)!
March 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Zoom in on Monday, March 31 if you'd like to hear me discuss translating Latin poetry (including Horace, Ovid, and Catullus)!
I am so impressed by my Catullus students' creative translations this semester--and am wowed by how many worked in formal meter. A quick glance tells me there's part of Catullus 63 in the form of a sestina, part of 64 in alexandrines, and both Catullus 16 and 50 in iambic pentameter.
December 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I am so impressed by my Catullus students' creative translations this semester--and am wowed by how many worked in formal meter. A quick glance tells me there's part of Catullus 63 in the form of a sestina, part of 64 in alexandrines, and both Catullus 16 and 50 in iambic pentameter.
I'm thrilled this news is out! The Committee for the Translations of Classical Authors hopes this award will demonstrate that translation matters (and should count!) in Classics. Inaugural judges are Sarah Ruden, Deborah Roberts, and Adrienne Rose. Please share!
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SCS Award for Outstanding Literary Translation | Society for Classical Studies
About the Award The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members publis...
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October 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I'm thrilled this news is out! The Committee for the Translations of Classical Authors hopes this award will demonstrate that translation matters (and should count!) in Classics. Inaugural judges are Sarah Ruden, Deborah Roberts, and Adrienne Rose. Please share!
classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
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The SCS is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation! The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members that translate primary texts in Ancient Greek or Latin. Letters of nomination may be submitted by anyone! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
SCS Award for Outstanding Literary Translation | Society for Classical Studies
About the Award The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members publis...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
The SCS is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation! The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members that translate primary texts in Ancient Greek or Latin. Letters of nomination may be submitted by anyone! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
It was lovely to do this interview with the wonderful Parnassus Books about *Women in Power.* If you find yourself in Nashville anytime soon, definitely visit Parnassus!
Reading the Classics Against the Grain: An Interview with Stephanie McCarter
Women In Power is an anthology of ancient sources regarding just that — powerful women. Under the guiding hand of Prof. Stephanie McCarter, recent translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, rich, primary …
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October 23, 2024 at 2:26 PM
It was lovely to do this interview with the wonderful Parnassus Books about *Women in Power.* If you find yourself in Nashville anytime soon, definitely visit Parnassus!
It's great to have "Women in Power" featured in Publishers Weekly.
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Anthology Reframes the Story of Women and Power in Antiquity
In 'Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra,' professor and translator Stephanie McCarter asserts that numerous women held political power in antiquity—and that Gree...
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September 11, 2024 at 6:27 PM
It's great to have "Women in Power" featured in Publishers Weekly.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
This was such a group effort, with a beautiful translation of Ovid's Heroides 7 by @ezd.bsky.social and fabulous contributions by my brilliant former student Paige Graf and my generous colleagues Chris McDonough and Daniel Holmes.
Publication Day! Ovid's Dido, a joy to do!
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
Women in Power: 9780143136361 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power....
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September 10, 2024 at 7:40 PM
This was such a group effort, with a beautiful translation of Ovid's Heroides 7 by @ezd.bsky.social and fabulous contributions by my brilliant former student Paige Graf and my generous colleagues Chris McDonough and Daniel Holmes.
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Publication Day! Ovid's Dido, a joy to do!
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
Women in Power: 9780143136361 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
September 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Publication Day! Ovid's Dido, a joy to do!
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
@stephaniemccarter.bsky.social, editor & translator is extraordinary!
Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in new and existing translations.
Find it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
September 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325...
This book has become one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful illustration of how books (and the libraries and databanks that house them!) bind us to each other through time—and translation is a key part of that process. Here’s a favorite passage:
September 3, 2024 at 4:49 PM
This book has become one of my favorites. It’s a beautiful illustration of how books (and the libraries and databanks that house them!) bind us to each other through time—and translation is a key part of that process. Here’s a favorite passage:
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✨Special Episode – Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Professor Stephanie McCarter✨
Join us as we interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Join us as we interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Special Episode - Ovid's Metamorphoses with Professor Stephanie McCarter - The Partial Historians
We interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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June 6, 2024 at 8:21 AM
✨Special Episode – Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Professor Stephanie McCarter✨
Join us as we interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
partialhistorians.com/2024/06/06/s...
Join us as we interview Professor Stephanie McCarter, the author of a ground-breaking new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
partialhistorians.com/2024/06/06/s...
I love my new book cover, a scratchboard illustration by Greek-American artist Evangelia Philippidis, depicting Amanirenas (left, in red), Dido (center, in blue, holding a calla lily), and Boudicca (right, in green, holding a sword), with Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in background. Out in September!
June 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I love my new book cover, a scratchboard illustration by Greek-American artist Evangelia Philippidis, depicting Amanirenas (left, in red), Dido (center, in blue, holding a calla lily), and Boudicca (right, in green, holding a sword), with Aristophanes' Assemblywomen in background. Out in September!
Calling all Ovidians! Don't forget that the new journal Ovidius is accepting submissions on any aspect of Ovid and the afterlives of his work, including academic articles, translations, and original creative works! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...
Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society
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May 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Calling all Ovidians! Don't forget that the new journal Ovidius is accepting submissions on any aspect of Ovid and the afterlives of his work, including academic articles, translations, and original creative works! ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...
I still have my slide to prove it!
April 27, 2024 at 7:52 PM
I still have my slide to prove it!
Happy to be giving the Morse Lecture this week at the University of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. In-person and online! www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
April 14, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Happy to be giving the Morse Lecture this week at the University of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. In-person and online! www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
Living and working on a campus in rural Tennessee has its challenges, but there are so many days, like today, when it's just gloriously beautiful. (Pic taken today on my walk to the post office, which is in the basement of the building shown.)
March 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Living and working on a campus in rural Tennessee has its challenges, but there are so many days, like today, when it's just gloriously beautiful. (Pic taken today on my walk to the post office, which is in the basement of the building shown.)
I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...
Shattering Violence, Shimmering Prizes
Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad brings the strange and brutal beauty of Homer’s world into the English-speaking now.
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February 26, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I'm glad to see this review I wrote of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation out now, via the Penn Gazette. I had so much fun writing this (and could have written several thousand words more)! thepenngazette.com/shattering-v...