Tim Stover

Associate Professor
Interim Chair

Tim Stover (Ph.D., Texas) specializes in Latin poetry, with particular interests in imperial epic and Senecan tragedy. In addition to articles on Lucretius, Vergil, Seneca, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius he is the author of Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome: A New Reading of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is the co-editor, with Laurel Fulkerson, of Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). His next major project will focus on the intertextuality of Senecan tragedy. Tim has won three teaching awards at FSU: in 2010 he won an Undergraduate Teaching Award; in 2011 he received a Transformation through Teaching Award; and in 2016 he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Award.

 

Prospective Students: Prof. Stover is currently accepting graduate students.

Research Interests
Latin Poetry