Select List of Delivered Papers, Panels, & Conversations (since 2017):
2025: “Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited lecture; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara; April 17, 2025).
2025: “Ovid, Translation, and the Female Gaze.” (Invited lecture; The Humanities Studio, Pomona College; April 3-4, 2025).
2025: “Translating Latin Poetry.” Found in Translation: Female Translators of the Classics. The Siren Project: Women’s Voice in Literature and the Visual Arts (Invited lecture; paper series also featuring Jenny Strauss Clay, Emily Wilson, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer; UVA; Virtual; March 31, 2025).
2024: “Stephanie McCarter on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Three-part Academy of American Poets Seminar. (Invited, Virtual).
2024: “Ancient Women in Power: From the Amazons to Zenobia” (Invited lecture, Phillips Exeter Academy; Exeter, NH, November 5, 2024).
2024: “Translating Latin Poetry.” Humboldt Translation Workshop Series, organized by Martin Revermann (Invited keynote; Scuola Normale; Pisa, Italy; Virtual).
2024: International Ovidian Society Online Discussion of Recent Books on Ovid, presenting on my translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. (Invited 20-minute paper, followed by response from Sara Myers; Virtual).
2024: “Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Sir Jeremy Morse Distinguished Lecture. (Invited lecture and workshop; University of Bristol, UK). Video available here.
2024: “Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses Now: A Q&A with Stephanie McCarter.” (Invited; Arizona State University). Video available here.
2024: Inaugural Faculty Speaker, Easter Convocation. (The University of the South, Sewanee). Written version available here, video here.
2023: “Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited lecture, California Classical Association–South; Virtual).
2023: “The Iliad: Emily Wilson with Stephanie McCarter.” (Harrisburg Book Festival; Harrisburg).
2023: “Re-translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited paper; Translations, Ancient and Modern, with Stephanie McCarter and Rachel Reynolds; Friends of the Library; The University of the South; Sewanee).
2023: “Elizabeth Colomba and Classical Myth.” (Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics; University of Tennessee; Knoxville).
2023: “Reclaiming Cleopatra.” Fait la Force Brewing (Nashville, TN): Via Profs and Pints.
2023: “Re-translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited paper and panel, “Rethinking the Canon: New Voices Reassess Traditional Content,” with Daniel McGlathery, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Harriet Fink; American Classical League Institute; St. Louis, MO).
2023: “Stephanie McCarter Discusses Her New Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Conversation with Liz Oakley-Brown. (Invited by the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Lancaster University; Virtual). (See video here.)
2023:“Translating Across Difference.” Roundtable with Paul Holloway and Joyoun Jang, moderated by Mohammed Albakry and Joseph McAlhany. (Invited conversation; Department of English and Creative Writing, University of the South; Sewanee, TN).
2023: “Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited lecture, Bowdoin College; Brunswick, ME).
2023: “Canon, Race, and Gender in Elizabeth Colomba’s Daphne.” (Refereed, CAMWS Annual Meeting; Provo, UT).
2023: “Sex in Ancient Rome.” Fait la Force Brewing (Nashville, TN): Via Profs and Pints.
2023: “Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Stephanie McCarter” (Three-part lecture series; Invited, Roundtable: 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center; Virtual).
2023: “Translation and Interdisciplinary Space within Classics.” (Refereed, “Making Space for Translation” workshop, sponsored by Ancient Exchanges; Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA).
2023: “Subversive Power: Helen Morales and Stephanie McCarter.” (Discussion; Invited; Classics Now Festival (Dublin); Virtual) (See video here.)
2022: “Translator Stephanie McCarter and Cheri Magid Discuss Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited; Third Place Books & Community Bookstore). (See video here.)
2022: “Why Ovid (and Translation) Matters.” (Invited, Penn State).
2022: “Ovid’s Daphne and Feminist Translation of the Metamorphoses.” (Invited, Union College, Virtual).
2022: Panel: “Stephanie McCarter Presents Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Elizabeth Colomba, Nina MacLaughlin, and Elda Rotor.” (Invited; McNally Jackson Books, Seaport; New York, NY).
2022: “Ovid’s Cephalus and the Dangers of Mistranslation.” Penn Classical Studies Department Colloquium. (Invited; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA)
2022: “Ovid’s Cephalus and the Dangers of Mistranslation.” Meeting of Vereniging Classici Nederland (Invited; Nunspeet, Netherlands).
2022: Workshop on Translating Ovid into English, Chinese, and Japanese in the 21st Century, with Hiroyuki Takahashi (Kyoto University, translator of the Metamorphoses into Japanese) and Wei Zhang, Kang Zhai, and Wuming Chang (Chinese translators working on Metamorphoses). (Invited; Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series VIII, Guangqi International Center for Scholars; Shanghai Normal University; Virtual).
2022: “Why Ovid (and Translation) Matters.” (Invited, Trendall Lecture, hosted by the Australian Academy of the Humanities at the annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, Virtual).
2022: “Translating Daphne.” (Invited, Mudge Lecture, Middlesex School).
2021: “Ovid’s Callisto and Feminist Translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” (Invited, Vassar College).
2021: “Breasts Are Best? Ovidian Translation and the Female Body” (Invited, Wake Forest University, Virtual).
2021: “Sex, Rage, and Change: Feminist Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Conversation with Nina MacLaughlin, Paisley Rekdal, and Stephanie McCarter” (Organizer and Participant, Sewanee, Virtual). (See video here.)
2020. “Teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses” (Invited, “expert lecture” for faculty teaching in Columbia University’s Literature Humanities program, Virtual).
2020. “Translating Ovid in the Age of #MeToo” (Invited, Sewanee Seminars Lifelong Learning Series).
2020. “Ovid’s Relevance to the World Today” (Ovid and the Art of Love Film Panel, with writer/director Esme Von Hoffman and Classicist Rachel Philbrick; Invited, Virtual).
2020. “Translating Ovid in the Age of #MeToo” (Invited, University of Richmond, Virtual).
2020. “Translating Ovid in the Age of #MeToo” (Invited, Wellesley College, Virtual).
2020. “Translating Across Race and Gender” (Invited, Panel Discussion, American Literary Translators Association Conference, Virtual).
2019. “Translating Ovid’s Sexual Violence” (Invited, a conversation with The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino, Columbia University).
2019. “Breasts are Best? Translation and the Ovidian Female Body” (Refereed, International Ovidian Society Plenary Panel, sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus, CAMWS, Lincoln, NE).
2019. “Translating Ovid in the Age of #MeToo” (Invited, Beaumont Keynote Lecture, Eighth Annual University of Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Conference, Knoxville).
2018. “Lucretius’s Beautiful Phlegm: Disgust, Pleasure, and the Aesthetics of Plague” (Refereed, CAMWS, Albuquerque, NM).
2017. “Cleopatra’s Nose and the Face of the World” (Invited, Sewanee Summer Seminar).
2017. “Augustan Women and the Women of Augustus: Gender and Morality in the Age of Rome’s First Emperor” (Invited, Sewanee Summer Seminar).
2017. “‘He Did It Like a Man?’: Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Horace’s Epistles 1” (Refereed, CAMWS, Kitchener, Ontario).
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