smccallum

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smccallum@arizona.edu
Office
Learning Services Building 214
Office Hours
Fall 2025: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12–1pm (or by appointment)
McCallum, Sarah
Associate Professor

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                                                        

  • “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                                                        

 

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

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LAT 401/501 - Latin Reading Course

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Currently Teaching

CLAS 498H – Honors Thesis

An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

LAT 400 – Prose of the Roman Republic

Extended readings from Sallust, Cicero and Caesar with some grammatical review; development of skills in rapid readings and sight reading.

LAT 401 – Latin Reading Course

Readings in one of the following: epic, lyric, drama, history, oratory, satire, epistles, novel, philosophical, technical or medieval literature.

LAT 501 – Latin Reading Course

Readings in one of the following: epic, lyric, drama, history, oratory, satire, epistles, novel, philosophical, technical or medieval literature. Graduate-level requirements include extensive reading and a research paper.