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Jacqueline Long

Associate Professor

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & International Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences

Personal interests include food, cats and forms of mild athleticism in which I won't hurt myself too much..

Education

A.B., Princeton University

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Late Antique history & literature; Roman history & literature; women and gender in the Classical world

Publications/Research Listings

Representative Publications:

  • "Performance: An Approach to Strengthening Interdisciplinarity in Women's Studies and Gender Studies," Ann M. Shanahan, Prudence A. Moylan, Betsy Jones Hemenway, Bren Ortega Murphy, Jacqueline Long, Susan Grossman, Hector Garcia, Mary Dominiak, PARtake: the Journal of Performance as Research 1.1.4 (2016).
  • "Gender, Democracy, and the Justice of Athena's Vote to Acquit Orestes," Text and Presentation 12 (2015) 57-69.
  • Claudian's in Eutropium, or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, with Alan Cameron and a contribution by Lee Sherry, University of California Press, 1993.

Recent Talks:

  • “Boys Will Be Idiots: Euripides’ Doctrinaire Youths Hippolytus and Pentheus and the Confounding Threshold of Divinity,” Comparative Drama Conference 2026, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 9-11 July 2026
  • "What is Euripides' Problem? Criticizing Women in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae," Comparative Drama Conference 2025, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 9-11 July 2025
  • "Authority, Deference, and Gender: Galla Placidia Writes to Bishops," Shifting Frontiers XVI, University of Tulsa, 20-23 March 2025