Judith Peller Hallett, PhD

Biography: Judith P. Hallett is professor of classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Hallett received her BA from Wellesley College and her MA and PhD from Harvard University. Hallett has been a Mellon Fellow at Brandeis University and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women as well as the Blegen Visiting Scholar at Vassar College. Her major research specializations are Latin language and literature; gender, sexuality, and the family in ancient Greek and Roman society; and the history of classical studies in the United States. Author of Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family (Princeton University Press, 1984), Hallett is also coeditor of a special double issue of Classical World on Six North American Women Classicists (1996-1997), Roman Sexualities (Princeton University Press, 1997), Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (Routledge, 1997), Rome and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine Geffcken (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000), a special issue of Arethusa on The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (2001), a special issue of Helios on Roman Mothers (2006), coauthor with Sheila K. Dickison of A Roman Women Reader: Selections from the 2nd Century BCE-2nd Century CE (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, forthcoming), and coauthor with Sheila K. Dickison of Rome and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine A Geffcken (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000). In addition, she has published over sixty articles, chapters in books, and translations, as well as speeches (ovations) and songs in classical Latin. She also contributed the essays on Cornelia, Sulpicia the elegist, Martial's Sulpicia, and the women of the Vindolanda tablets to Women Writing Latin, Volume I (Routledge, 2002).