William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classical Languages
B.A., the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
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.
Professor McCarter’s academic focus is on the Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Roman Empire, as well as its translation and reception. Her monograph Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles was published in 2015 by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her published verse translations include: Horace’s Epodes and Odes (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020); Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics, 2022), which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Catullus (Penguin Classics, 2026). She also edited and contributed various translations to Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra (Penguin Classics, 2024). 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 is the 2027 President-Elect of the Society for Classical Studies. She will serve as President in 2028.
For a full list of Professor McCarter's publications, please visit her personal website (stephaniemccarter.com) or see her curriculum vitae.
