K. Sara Myers

K. Sara Myers is a Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, specializing in Latin literature, ancient gardens, gender studies, and the poetics of epic commencement. Her academic journey includes a BA from Oberlin College and a PhD from Stanford University, with prior teaching positions at Princeton University and the University of Michigan before joining UVA in 1997.

Her research explores Latin literature's contexts, focusing on garden imagery in Roman texts, Ovid's works, and representations of women in antiquity. Key publications include Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (1994), Ovid Metamorphoses 14 (2009), and Ancient Roman Literary Gardens (2024). She has edited volumes such as Vertis in usum: Studies in honor of E. Courtney (2002) and contributed to major encyclopedias like the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Her articles span topics from Ovid's exile poetry and Imperial epic to Statius' invocational techniques. Myers' work bridges textual analysis with cultural and environmental history, particularly emphasizing gardens as sites of gendered discourse and imperial ideology. She has received no explicitly mentioned awards but is recognized for her influential scholarship in classical studies.