Mary Hamil Gilbert

Mary Hamil Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman drama, classical reception in early modern France, and women and gender studies. She has published articles and chapters on Aeschylus, Euripides, Seneca, and early modern French tragedien Jean Racine's reception of Greek and Roman drama including 'Engaging Ancient Tragedy: Troy Falls Again in Jean Racine's Andromaque' (Classical Receptions Journal, 2018), 'Je sentis...See more

Mary Hamil Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman drama, classical reception in early modern France, and women and gender studies. She has published articles and chapters on Aeschylus, Euripides, Seneca, and early modern French tragedien Jean Racine's reception of Greek and Roman drama including 'Engaging Ancient Tragedy: Troy Falls Again in Jean Racine's Andromaque' (Classical Receptions Journal, 2018), 'Je sentis tout mon corps et transir et brûler' Sublimating Ancient Sexuality in Jean Racine's Phèdre et Hippolyte in The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender (2022), and 'Policing Women's Anger in the Roman Tragedy Octavia' (forthcoming). She has also translated Anyte of Tegea's animal epigrams into English (Ancient Exchanges, 2020). See less