Mary C. Danisi

Mary C. Danisi is a Lecturer at Cornell University’s Department of Classics and the John S. Knight Institute Visiting Lecturer for Writing in the Disciplines. Her research focuses on materiality and aesthetics in Greek and Roman art, literature, and religion, with projects examining interrelations between ancient visual and verbal media.

• Ph.D., Classics, Cornell University, 2024
• B.A., Classics, Barnard College of Columbia University, 2017

Her work explores counterfeit cult practices, sacred textile bands (fillets), and theoretical frameworks of representation in antiquity, supported by institutions like the Cornell Institute for Archaeological and Material Studies (CIAMS) and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

• Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize Fellow (2024)

Mary has taught classical languages, literature, and Mediterranean art/archaeology, with internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and fieldwork supervising excavations at Corinth and The Onchestos Excavation Project.