Rachel Dubit

Dr. Rachel E. Dubit holds a BA in Classical Studies from the College of William & Mary and a PhD in Classics (Language & Literature) from Stanford University. She is interested in genre, gender, and landscape in Greek and Latin poetry, with an emphasis on Augustan Latin poetry and the work of Propertius and Ovid in particular. She has a soft spot for fragmentary and neglected texts (such as the Carmen de Bello Actiaco), as well as for texts that have historically been undervalued in scholarship (such as Ovid's Heroides). In addition to traditional philological approaches, she incorporates cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, and computational methods into her research, including her dissertation on the shifting metaphorical and geopoetic framework of the paraclausithyron in Augustan elegy. Dr. Dubit also engages with the material side of Classics through work on ancient winemaking practices and an enduring interest in the archaeology of pre-Roman Italy. She pairs her diverse research interests with a commitment to evidence-based, student-centered pedagogy. She taught at Colorado College before coming to Dartmouth, where she will teach courses in Latin and Greek at various levels, as well as Classical Studies seminars in translation.