Victoria Emma Pagán,

Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Florida, is a recipient of a Teaching Award for 2010 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (Austin 2004), Rome and the Literature of Gardens (London 2006), and A Sallust Reader (Wauconda 2009).  She is the editor of the Blackwell Companion to Tacitus (2012) and she is finishing Conspiracy Theory in Ancient Rome: Conjecture and Social Status  for the University of Texas Press.  She is the author of over a dozen articles on Latin literature.

Born and raised in Ravenna, Ohio, Victoria spent a year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island, before she earned her B.A. in Latin at Kent State University, her M.A. at the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.  A member of the Florida Track Club, she resides in Gainesville with her husband, son, and daughter.

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