
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.

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.

Articles and book chapters
“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
University of Arizona
2024 Provost Award for Innovation in Teaching
2024 College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Awards (Full Story)
2023–2024 WAC Faculty Fellowship
2022 Provost Author Support Fund
2021 Five Star Faculty Award Nominee
Fall 2025 Courses
LAT 400 - Prose of the Roman Republic

LAT 401/501 - Latin Reading Course
Spring 2025 Courses
GRK 102 – Elementary Classical Greek II

LAT 413/513 - Augustan Literature
