Professional Summary
A.B. Classical Languages, University of Georgia 2018
M.A. Classics, University of Cincinnati 2022
Before coming to the University of Cincinnati, Austin was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. His undergraduate thesis, "The Rhetoric of Ariadne and the Construction of the Catullan Ego," discussed the role of rhetoric in ecphrasis and how rhetorical tropes link the poetic voice with Ariadne in Catullus' Carmen 64. His M.A. thesis at Cincinnati, meanwhile, situated Callimachus' dream in Aetia within Ptolemaic culture and discourse.
Austin is primarily interested in Hellenistic poetry. His dissertation uses historicist methods to identify more closely the relationship between Hellenistic poetry and Ptolemaic power. He has secondary interests in ancient science and particularly astronomy, as well as the Nine Lyric Poets, especially Pindar.