James Uden

James Uden joins the FAS as Professor of Classics. He comes to Yale after fourteen years at Boston University, where he served as Professor (and Chair, 2021–2014) of the Department of Classical Studies and held an honorary affiliation with the World Languages and Literatures Department. His research focuses broadly on Latin literature and its afterlife in later periods. He is the author of two books: The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome (Oxford University Press, 2015); and Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2020). Spectres of Antiquity won the Charles J. Goodwin Award for best book from the Society of Classical Studies and was nominated for the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize in Gothic Criticism. His current book project, on representations of physical vulnerability in Roman epic, stems from a period studying medical anthropology funded by a New Directions Grant from the Mellon Foundation.