Prof Carole E. Newlands –  HRC visiting fellow, classicist, and US-based professor of comparative literature and reception studies – will be giving a short talk on some observations, based on her personal experience and from the US, on the issue that never goes away – combining a career with family.

AWAWS (Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies) is open to men, as well as to women. Combining career and family can mean combining a career with having/raising children, caring responsibilities, the career of one’s partner.

Bring your lunch! Tea/coffee and cake provided. You are invited to make a donation to cover coffee & cake and a small contribution to  the AWAWS scholarship fund ($5 suggested, $2 undergraduates, but optional – even a gold coin is welcome).

Professor Carole Newlands is College Professor of Distinction in Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include classical and medieval Latin literature, and cultural and reception studies. She is the author of over 40 articles on classical and medieval topics and has published several books: Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell University Press 1995); Statius Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge 2002); Siluae Book 2 (Cambridge Greek and Latin series 2011); Statius: a Poet between Rome and Naples (London 2012); Ovid: an Introduction (London 2015). She is also co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Oxford 2014); The Brill Companion to Statius (Leiden 2015); and Ancient Campania: Poetics, Location, and Identity (Illinois 2015). She has held research fellowships at Clare Hall Cambridge and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, as well as fellowships from the ACLS, NEH, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. She is currently a research fellow at the ANU's Humanities Research Centre, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics.

Please RSVP by Thursday 20th October for catering by emailing Fiona.sweet-Formiatti@anu.edu.au.