Christina A. Clark
Associate Professor
Now an associate professor in the department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at Creighton University, she earned her B.A. in Classics from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She grew up on military bases around the world before her father, a colonel in the US Army, retired in the Washington, DC area. Pursuing a career in ballet as a teenager, she danced with the Virginia Ballet Company, Festival Ballet of Rhode Island, and Washington Ballet. In the summers, she studied ballet in New York City at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theater school.
However, she decided to go to college after all, and while there, fell in love with classics. For her junior year, she studied at Trinity College, Dublin, traveling to Greece and Italy for the first time as well. As a graduate student, she spent five summers in Greece on archaeological projects (both excavation and surface survey) as well as participating in a Summer Session of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. Her scholarly interests include the study of nonverbal behavior as it is represented in literature and art, gender studies, early Greek poetry, and Latin epic and lyric poetry (she has published on Alkman, Sappho, Bakchylides, Catullus, Lucretius, and Vergil). In addition to teaching all levels of Greek and Latin, she teaches courses on classical and Ancient Near Eastern mythology and literature, gender in the ancient Mediterranean world, Greek and Roman drama and epic, and Greek archaeology.
