Victoria Hodges (she/her) joined the Rutgers Classics Department in Fall 2019 after earning her M.A. in Classics and her B.A. in Anthropology. Her dissertation, titled “Reading with the Body: Novels, Narratives, and Fragments,” examines the ways in which the ancient reader experiences, responds to, and interprets the text beyond and against the societal mechanisms of education, gender, class, and wealth. For the 2025–2026 academic year, Victoria has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for the successful completion of this research. She currently resides in Oxford as a visiting associate member of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity.
During her tenure as a doctoral fellow, Victoria was awarded the Michael Jameson Fellowship (2022–2023) and the Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellowship (2023–2024) for research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In previous years, she also served as the co-director and instructor of the Classics Latin and Greek Intensive Programs (2021; 2022) and has taught courses on Greek and Roman history, literature, culture, and archaeology (2021–2025). In addition to her teaching, Victoria has presented papers on readership, dance, and gender in the Greek Imperial period with four forthcoming publications on erotic choreography in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, the material sublime in Lucian’s True Histories, dance and song in Aristaenetus’ Epistles, and acrobatic spectatorship in the Latin novels. In addition to her dissertation, her current research interests include late antique poetry, Imperial Greek epic, and Martha Graham’s Greek-inspired dances.