Classics and Modern Languages
  • 513-745-3677
  • Walter Schott Hall, Rm 811
  • Fax: 859-745-1955
  • ML 5184

Katie DeBoer

Adjunct Professor, Classics

Katie De Boer received her PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill in 2016 and taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University for three years before coming to Xavier in 2019. Her research is focused on representations of gender and the body in ancient Greek and Latin poetry. She particularly enjoys bringing her research interests into the classroom and showing students how ancient literature can speak to contemporary concerns.
  • 513-745-3677
  • Walter Schott Hall, Rm 811
  • Fax: 859-745-1955
  • ML 5184
Katie De Boer received her PhD in Classics from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill in 2016 and taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University for three years before coming to Xavier in 2019. Her research is focused on representations of gender and the body in ancient Greek and Latin poetry. She particularly enjoys bringing her research interests into the classroom and showing students how ancient literature can speak to contemporary concerns.

First Year at Xavier
2019

Professional Interests Greek and Latin poetry (especially epic and elegy), gender and embodiment, mythology, second language acquisition, team-based learning, digital pedagogy, classics in cinema

  • “Violence and Vulnerability in Ovid’s Amores 1.5-1.8.” AJP 142.2. (2021).
  • “Arms and the Woman: Discourses of Militancy and Motherhood in Vergil’s Aeneid.” Arethusa 52.2 (2019).
  • “Blaming Helen: Vergil’s Deiphobus and the Tradition of Dead Men Talking.” Eugesta 9: 1-25 (2019).
  • “Pindar’s Peaceful Rapes.” Helios 44.1: 1-27. (2017).