Victoria Emma Pagán,

Associate Professor of Classics, is Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor for 2008 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  She is the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (Austin 2004) and Rome and the Literature of Gardens (London 2006, in the Classical Inter/Faces Series).  She has written articles on Tacitus, Statius, and Vergil.  She has received post-doctoral awards from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.  In March 2009, she will deliver the keynote address before the Classical Association of the Canadian West at the University of Manitoba, on the theme of "Violence in Greek and Roman Antiquity."

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.  She resides in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband, son, and daughter.