Sarah McCallum

Interests

Teaching

Latin language and literature, especially poetry of the Republican and Augustan periods; Roman elegy and epic; Catullus; Lucretius; Vergil; Propertius; Tibullus; Ovid || Greek language and literature, especially epic poetry; Homer; Theocritus || The epic tradition: genre; aesthetics; and intertextuality || The concept of love in Roman poetry: tracing the development of a cultural concept

Research

Latin language and literature, especially poetry of the Republican and Augustan periods; Roman elegy and epic; Catullus; Lucretius; Vergil; Propertius; Tibullus; Ovid || Greek language and literature, especially epic poetry; Homer; Theocritus || The epic tradition: genre; aesthetics; and intertextuality || The concept of love in Roman poetry: tracing the development of a cultural concept

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• McCallum, S. L. (2019). Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Roman Myth and Culture. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition. In exploring Anna Perenna, the contributors apply different perspectives and critical methods to an array of compelling evidence drawn from central texts, monuments, coins, and inscriptions that encapsulate Rome's shifting artistic and political landscape. As a collection, Uncovering Anna Perenna provides a unique examination that represents the interdisciplinary intersection between Roman literature, history, and culture.The assembled chapters offer thought-provoking and insightful discussions written by specialists in Roman myth and religion, literary studies, and ancient history. A convergence of different perspectives within the collection, including comparative literature, gender and sexuality, literary criticism, and reception, results in a rich and varied investigation. Organized into four parts, the volume explores Anna along four conceptual lines: her liminal nature as a Carthaginian figure coopted into Rome's literary, mythological, and artistic heritage; her capacity as a Roman goddess and nymph; her political and cultural associations with plebeian and populist ideology; and her intriguing influence on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Chapters

• McCallum, S. L. (2019). Rivalry and Revelation: Ovid’s Elegiac Revision of Vergilian Allusion. In Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Roman Myth and Culture(pp 19–36). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
• McCallum, S. L. (2016). Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral Programme in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle(pp 124–139). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Journals/Publications

• McCallum, S. L. (2017). Ego sum pastor: Pastoral Transformations in the Tale of Mercury and Battus (Ov. Met. 2.676–707). Classical Outlook, 92(2), 29–34.
• McCallum, S. L. (2015). Elegiac Amor and Mors in Vergil’s ‘Italian Iliad’: A Case Study (Verg. Aen. 10.185–193). Classical Quarterly, 65(2), 1–11. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838815000403
• McCallum, S. L. (2015). Heu Ligurine: Echoes of Vergil in Horace Odes 4.1. Vergilius, 61, 29–42.