Eleni Manolaraki

Associate Professor of Classics

Eleni Hall Manolaraki holds a Ph.D in classics from Cornell University (2003). Before coming to USF, she taught at Williams College and at Washington University in St. Louis.

Her book Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (Degruyter 2012), was funded by an NEH summer scholarship and by a summer grant from the USF Humanities Institute.

She has published articles and book chapters on Roman epic (Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus), historiography (Tacitus, Pliny the Younger), and natural history (Pliny the Elder).

She is co-author and editor of the Wiley textbook A History of Rome (4th edition), by Marcel Leglay et al. At USF she teaches Latin and general education courses on classical topics.