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Sasha-Mae Eccleston is the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. Her many honors include the 2021 NEH/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize in Ancient Studies. She is cofounder of both Racing the Classics and Eos and directs the Postdoctoral/Post-MFA Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies. Eccleston lives in Providence, RI.
"“Epic Events is a powerful meditation on time, memory, and the symbolism of the classical in the U.S. after 9/11. The book is itself epic in its erudite survey of aesthetic forms and traditions, and its remediation of trauma for its readers.”—Patrice Rankine, author of Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020 “Sasha-Mae Eccleston forcefully demonstrates the ways modern art and literature responding to events like the Vietnam War and 9/11 have engaged with classical material to interrogate the distribution of power and definitions of belonging in America today.”—Denise Eileen McCoskey, author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy ""Epic Events is a brilliant account of the politics of time that come with appeals to Greek and Roman classics in modern America. Eccleston skillfully analyzes contemporary works to enhance our understanding of the American classical tradition and to tackle hierarchies of citizenship that derive authority from a timeless, homogeneous, classical past.""—Emily Greenwood, Harvard University "
