Professor of Classical Languages
B.A., the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
samccart@sewanee.edu
Personal Website: stephaniemccarter.com
Stephanie McCarter has taught at Sewanee since 2008. She received a BA (2000) in Classics and English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an MA (2002) and PhD (2007) in Classics from the University of Virginia. At Sewanee she teaches Greek and Latin courses at all levels as well as courses in Classical Studies, and she is active in Sewanee’s interdisciplinary Humanities program.
Outside of the classroom, her current major interest is in literary translation. She has published verse translations of Horace's Epodes and Odes (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and Ovid's Metamorphoses (Penguin, 2022), the latter of which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also edited and contributed various translations to Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra (Penguin, 2024). Her translation of Catullus is forthcoming in July 2026 (also from Penguin), and she is currently at work on a translation of Ovid’s erotodidactic poetry (Art of Love, Remedies for Love, On Women’s Cosmetics), for which she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship.
Professor McCarter’s academic research centers on the Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Roman Empire, including Statius, Vergil, Lucretius, and especially Horace. Her monograph Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles was published in 2015 by the University of Wisconsin Press. She additionally finds great value and enjoyment in writing for non-academic audiences and has had essays appear on Classical topics in venues such as Eidolon, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and The Washington Post.
For a full list of Professor McCarter's publications, please visit her personal website (stephaniemccarter.com) or see her curriculum vitae.
