Vincent Tomasso

Vince graduated in 2010 and will spend the next two years on a postdoctorate at Ripon College, where he will be the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Post-doctoral Fellow in Classics.  Vince's dissertation, Studies in the Poetics of Quintus of Smyrna, was advised by Richard Martin, Grant Parker and Susan Stephens. He won a Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center for 2009-10. His research interests include Homeric studies, mythology and folklore, epic, and theogonic and heroic poetry.