Alessandro Barchiesi

Alessandro Barchiesi is a Professor of Classics at New York University's Department of Classics within the College of Arts & Science. His research focuses on Roman poetry and narrative texts, combining Classical philology with modern literary theory to analyze intertextuality, narratology, and the intersection of literature with art, inscriptions, and monuments.

• He has published extensively on Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, examining themes like allusion in Homeric Effects in Vergilian Narrative (2015), politics in Ovid's Fasti, and geopoetics in Horace's lyric works.
• Recent projects include revising the Ovid’s Metamorphoses commentary (Cambridge UP 2024) and expanding his Sather Lectures (2011) into The War for Italia (2024).
• He actively contributes to editorial boards of Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, Fondazione Valla, and Fondation Hardt, and collaborates on Festschriften papers exploring Virgilian geopoetics and intertextuality with Lycophron’s Alexandra.
• In Spring 2023, he taught graduate courses on Imperial literature and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, inspiring interdisciplinary reception studies (e.g., Ovid in haute couture, transgender communities, and Spike Jonze’s film Her).