Stephanie McCarter

Stephanie McCarter is a Professor of Classical Languages at the University of the South (Sewanee) where she has taught since 2008. She received her BA in Classics and English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2000) and her MA (2002) and PhD (2007) in Classics from the University of Virginia.

Her academic work centers on the Latin poetry of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire, with a particular focus on literary translation of Greco-Roman literature. Professor McCarter teaches Greek and Latin courses at all levels as well as translation courses, and is active in Sewanee's interdisciplinary Humanities program.

Professor McCarter has established herself as a leading scholar in classical literary translation, publishing verse translations that have received significant acclaim. Her translation work demonstrates expertise in rendering classical poetry into contemporary English while maintaining the literary quality of the original works.

Her scholarly contributions include:

• Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra (Penguin, 2024)
• Ovid's Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics, 2022)
• Horace's Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020)
• Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)

Professor McCarter has received prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. She has also received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for her translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which was included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022. She actively engages with broader audiences through essays in Eidolon, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and The Washington Post.