Graduate Student Details

Kate Hildreth is a current PhD student in the Department of Classics at Rutgers University. She earned her B.A. in Classical Languages and Literature from Dartmouth College in 2017. After graduating, she spent four years teaching second grade in public schools in New York City.
During her time teaching, she earned an M.A.T. from Relay Graduate School of Education.
Kate joined Rutgers Classics as a Master's student in 2021. In 2023, she completed her Master's thesis titled, "Aeneas and Dido Transfigured: Juvenal's Engagement with Vergilian Epic in Satire 6" under the supervision of Jeffrey Ulrich. She has served as a teaching assistant for Greek Civilization, Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology, and Ancient Religion and a grader for Greek and Roman Athletics. She has taught Art History Survey (Prehistory to 1400), Roman Civilization and Greek Civilization at Rutgers University New Brunswick and Greek Civilization at Rutgers University Newark. In 2024, she attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Summer Seminar, for which she was awarded the Rutgers University Valegarkis Scholarship and the American School's Lawler Scholarship. Her current research interests include Roman satire, intertextuality, and ekphrasis. She presented her paper "Psyche Twice Punished: Objectification and Desirability in Apuleius' Metamorphoses" at Princeton's New Approaches to Ekphrasis workshop and the 2024 CAAS Annual meeting.