Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. She is an expert on Roman historiography and literature, gardens, and conspiracy.
Education edit
Pagán was awarded her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Tacitus Plus: The Poetics of Disguise.[1]
Career and research edit
Pagán's research has focused on Roman historiography, especially the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Pagán published the volume Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture with Judith W. Page, Professor of English, and Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Associate Professor of French, at the University of Florida. Her published research has been reviewed as 'critically nuanced' and 'formative', and 'thoughtful and innovative'.[2] [3]
Bibliography edit
- Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (University of Texas Press, 2004)
- Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature (University of Texas Press, 2012)
- Rome and the Literature of Gardens (Bloomsbury, 2006)
- A Sallust Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2009)
- (ed. with Judith W. Page and Brigitte Weltman-Aron) Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
- Tacitus (Bloomsbury, 2017)
- (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Tacitus (Blackwell, 2012)
- (ed. with James McNamara) Tacitus’ Wonders: Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome (Bloomsbury, 2022)
- (ed.) Tacitus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
- (ed. with Judith W. Page) Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens: From Antiquity to the Present (Routledge, 2023)
External links edit
References edit
- ^ Pagan, Victoria Emma (1997). Tacitus plus: the poetics of disguise (Thesis).
- ^ "Waterstones - A Companion to Tacitus". April 24, 2024.
- ^ "Review of: Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.