Graduate Student Details

Molly is a PhD Candidate and working on a dissertation that explores the counterfactual as a linguistic, rhetorical, and cognitive tool in Sophoclean tragedy. She joined Rutgers in 2018 after completing an MA at the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Molly currently works at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas in the Collaborative of Learning and Teaching as the Faculty Development Coordinator and teaches for the Trinity Classics Department as she is finishing her dissertation. Molly's research interests are primarily focused on Greek epic and tragedy, Roman comedy, pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the history of classical Christian education in the United States. Molly has presented at SCS, CAMWS, CAMWS Southern Section and attended a summer seminar at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, largely supported by the Valergakis fund. Her most recent presentation was titled "Counterfactual Contagion in Sophocles' Philoctetes," and has also presented "What is Classical about Classical Christian Education?" at CAMWS. She has taught Greek and Latin at beginning and intermediate levels, Classical Myth, and Roman Civilization and given invited lectures on the underlying theology of classical Christian education, Plato, and Euripides Bacchae.