Carolyn MacDonald

Dr. Carolyn MacDonald is an Associate Professor in Historical Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She specializes in Latin literature and Roman art, with research interests spanning cross-cultural interaction between Rome, Greece, and Italy, cultural memory studies, and representations of urban spaces in classical texts. She holds a BA from King's College/Dalhousie, MA from Dalhousie, and PhD from Stanford University.

Her research focuses on:

• Reinvention of Roman cultural memory
• Appropriation of Greek art in Rome
• Urban monument representation in poetry
• Italic influences in Roman culture

Recent publications examine corruption aesthetics in Latin American cinema and socioeconomic representations in contemporary literature.