Caitlin Eddings in profile, standing before a framed painting of a woman reading a book by a window.

Caitlin M. Eddings

  • School of Art + Art History

Caitlin M. Eddings is a first-year Ph.D. student studying under Dr. Jones. Her research examines marginalization in classical antiquity and its afterlives, from unattributed figures in Greek and Latin poetry to women history painters in early modern Flanders, Italy, and France. She earned an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 as a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow, writing her thesis on “Unattributed Lines in Euripides: Identifying Theonoe’s Defender in Helen (1621–41) and Elektra’s Addressee in Elektra (140).” At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she completed a B.A. in Classics and German in 2016, she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, receiving departmental honors for her thesis, “Amator Obstructus: The Fundamental Failures of Female Slaves in Ovid’s Amores.” An educator as well as a scholar, Caitlin has taught at Mount Wachusett Community College and at St. Bernard’s High School in Massachusetts, where she chaired the World Languages Department for four years. Currently, she teaches Latin, Ancient Greek, and German and is a founding board member of the Admissions Equity Collaborative, a nonprofit dedicated to making the college admissions process more accessible. In her free time, Caitlin can be found painting at her easel, her Chihuahua, Mackerel, ever underfoot.

  • Graduate Student