Matthew P. Loar

EDUCATION:
BA in Classics from Washington and Lee University (2007)
MSt in Women’s Studies from Kellogg College, University of Oxford (2009)

Matthew is an alumnus of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome; he has conducted archaeological fieldwork in East Lokris, Greece; and after a semester enrolled in the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he took a semester off to become a high school math teacher in Wilmington, DE. Matthew's dissertation work will likely track the uses and appropriations of Herakles/Hercules in verbal and visual discourses from Hellenistic Alexandria to Augustan Rome, examining the ways that Herakles/Hercules operates as an active site of cultural contestation.