Dr Alexandra Schultz

Alexandra Schultz’s research centers around the politics of literature and the history of knowledge in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Academic interests

Alexandra Schultz’s academic interests include: 

• Greek and Roman libraries
• Gender and sexuality
• Greek lyric poetry
• Imperial Greek and Latin prose
• The history of alphabetisation
• Feminist and postcolonial critique
• Papyrology.

Degrees obtained

• BA, Brown University.
• MSt, University of Oxford.
• PhD, Harvard University.

Awards and prizes

• Research Scholarship for Young Researchers, Fondation Hardt (postponed to 2022).
• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University 2020-21.
• Jens Aubrey Westengard Fund for Research and Study, Harvard University 2019, 2021.
• John J. Winkler Memorial Prize 2020.
• Merit and Term-time Research Fellowship, Harvard University 2019-20.
• Harvard Horizons Scholar 2019.
• Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University 2018, 2019.

Biography

Alexandra Schultz is a literary critic and cultural historian of Greco-Roman antiquity. Before coming to Cambridge, she received a BA in Classics and Computer Science from Brown University and an MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from Christ Church, University of Oxford with funding from a US-UK Fulbright award. She then worked for two years as a software engineer at Microsoft before pursuing her PhD in Classical Philology at Harvard.

Other interests

Painting, cooking, video games, boxing.