smccallum

Research Interests

Latin language and literature, especially Republican and Augustan poetry

• Roman elegy and epic

• Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid

Greek language and literature, especially Archaic and Hellenistic poetry

• Epic, lyric, and epigram

• Homer, Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theocritus

The ancient literary tradition

• Genre, aesthetics, and intertextuality

The concept of love in Roman poetry

• Tracing the development of a cultural concept

Publications

Monograph

• McCallum, Sarah L. Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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Co-edited volume

• Gwynaeth McIntyre and Sarah McCallum, eds. Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Myth and Culture. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

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Articles and book chapters                                                        

• “Eulogy.” In Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. De Gruyter: Forthcoming.

• “His Memory Alive: Traces of Gallan Elegy in Tibullus 2.3.” In Time and Music, Thought and Feeling in Tibullus, edited by Ian Goh. Brill: Forthcoming.

• “From Caieta to Erato: Vergil’s Elegiac Program in Aeneid 7.1–45.”  In Vergil and Elegy, edited by Alison Keith and Micah Myers, 125–38. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

• “Nulla fabula tegenda: Ovid’s Elegiac Revision of Vergilian Allusion.” In Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Myth and Culture, edited by Gwynaeth McIntyre and Sarah McCallum, 19–36. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

• “Ego sum pastor: Pastoral Transformations in the Tale of Mercury and Battus (Ov. Met. 2.676–707).” Classical Outlook 92.2 (2017): 29–34.

• “Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral Programme in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” In Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle, edited by Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson, 124–39. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

• “Heu Ligurine: Echoes of Vergil in Horace Odes 4.1.” Vergilius 61 (2015): 29–42.

• “Elegiac Amor and Mors in Vergil’s ‘Italian Iliad’: A Case Study (Verg. Aen. 10.185–193).” Classical Quarterly 65.2 (2015): 693–703.

Public scholarship                                                        

• McCallum, Sarah, and Arum Park. “Teaching Love.” Pasts Imperfect (2.10.2022).

Honors and Awards

Society for Classical Studies

• 2025 Award for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level (Full Story)

University of Arizona

• 2024 Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching (Full Story)

• 2024 College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award (Full Story) 

• 2023–2024 WAC Faculty Fellowship 

• 2022 Provost Author Support Fund

• 2021 Five Star Faculty Award Nominee

Fall 2026

Love Through the Ages: Conceptions of Love in Ancient Greece, Rome, and Beyond (CLAS 224)

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Prose of the Roman Republic (LAT 400)

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