Jessica R Blum-Sorensen

Jessica Blum-Sorensen is assistant professor of Classics at Providence College.  She specializes in imperial Latin poetry and the epic tradition, with a particular interest in the intersection of genre, gender, and political commentary in the mythic tradition. Her publications include her 2023 monograph, Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, a co-edited volume The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature (2019), and such articles as “The Future is Female: Circe, Augustus, and the Prehistory of Rome” (2023) and “Through the Looking Glass: epic exemplaand elegiac mirrors in the Argonautica,” (2023).