Caitlin Hines to Deliver Lecture as Part of the Class of 1963 Scholars in Residence Program Hines’ talk, titled “Words that Wound: Emotional Abuse in Roman Love Elegy,” will be held Nov. 16 in Northen Auditorium.
Caitlin Hines, associate professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati, will present a lecture at Washington and Lee University at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, in Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library. A reception will precede the talk at 4 p.m. in the lobby outside the auditorium entrance.
Hines’ talk, titled “Words that Wound: Emotional Abuse in Roman Love Elegy,” is free and open to the public. She is visiting W&L as part of the Class of 1963 Scholars in Residence Program, supported by the Classics Department and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. While on campus, Hines will visit the class CLAS 2100: Sex, Gender and Power in Ancient Literature taught by Caleb Dance, associate professor of classics at W&L, to discuss themes of her lecture. She will also have lunch with a handful of Dance’s students on Monday, Nov. 16, and Tuesday, Nov.17.
“The Classics Department and WGSS program are very fortunate to host Professor Hines as a Class of 1963 Scholar in Residence,” said Dance. “I crossed paths with Caitlin a few years ago when I visited the University of Cincinnati and encountered a remarkable batch of talented graduate students pursuing research in Latin literature. I soon learned that they all shared a mentor in Professor Hines. I’ve since studied her scholarship and sought her feedback on my own projects, and I’m thrilled for the wider W&L community to meet her.”
Hines’ lecture will discuss her newest research project investigating the power dynamics of “love” in Roman love poetry. She explores how ancient Roman elegists utilize harmful language, manipulation and volatile relational dynamics as central literary devices rather than romantic passion. Through insights from modern sociological studies of intimate partner violence, Hines illuminates the lover-poet’s commitment to exerting coercive control over his beloved.
Hines is a philologist specializing in Latin epic, elegy and tragedy, particularly the works of Vergil, Ovid, Seneca and Lucan, and is affiliate faculty in Cincinnati’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research interests include intertextuality, metapoetics and the sexual and fertility politics of the Augustan age. Hines holds a Bachelor of Arts in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Toronto (Canada). Prior to the University of Cincinnati, Hines was a postdoctoral fellow in classics at Wake Forest University.
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