Melissa Haynes

Melissa Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Princeton University, teaching Latin at all levels and undergraduate seminars on Roman civilization including the city of Rome, baths and brothels, and love poetry. Her office is located in 037 East Pyne with contact email mhaynes@princeton.edu. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer and received the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award for excellence in instruction.

She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University (2009) followed by two prestigious postdoctoral appointments: the Mellon Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis (2008-2010) and the ACLS New Faculty Fellowship at University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011-2013).

Dr. Haynes' research centers on sensory and bodily experience in antiquity during the High Imperial Period (1st-3rd century CE), examining cross-media representation of materiality, competing perceptual modes, and gender/sexuality in literary contexts across Greek and Latin texts. Her secondary focus explores reception of antiquity in 19th-20th century scholarship and medical discourses on sexuality, including co-translating Heinrich Kaan's 1844 sexological treatise Psychopathia Sexualis.

Her publications reveal consistent engagement with visual culture and gender in ancient literature, exemplified by her 2013 Helios article on architectural framing in Ps-Lucian's Erôtes and her chapter on visuality in Statius' epics for The Companion to Latin Epic. Current work analyzes ethics of viewing violence in Statius' Thebaid through contemporary horror scholarship.

Major recognitions include:

• Mellon Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Fellowship (2008-2010)
• ACLS New Faculty Fellowship (2011-2013)
• Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award

Her Mellon and ACLS fellowships provided critical research support for interdisciplinary work bridging classics, gender studies, and medical humanities. The available documentation does not specify current grant funding or details of student advising responsibilities.