Shashank Dimri (he/him) joined Rutgers University’s Department of Classics in Fall 2022 as an MA student, after completing his BA in Classics and English Literature at Purdue University. As an undergrad, he wrote a thesis on the ekphrastic allusions present in several scenes of Francisco Javier Alegre’s Neo-Latin epic, Alexandrias.
His primary research interests lie in exploring representations of Roman imperialism--both within and beyond the temporal and spatial limits of the Roman Empire—as well as the process of othering in Greek and Roman Republican rhetoric, and the style of Greek and Roman historians. Recently he presented his paper “Auctoritas Trimalchionis: an Analysis of the Relationship between Goods, Land, and Power in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis,” at the 2024 CAAS annual meeting.
