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Patricia J. Johnson is a Professor of Classics at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, she served as Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). She holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Southern California (1990), an MA in Classics from Cornell University (1979), and a BA in History from Cornell University (1977).
Her research focuses on Latin poetry (Catullus and Ovid), the reception of Ovid in Renaissance painting, and the role of women in Republican and Augustan Rome. Her 2008 monograph Ovid Before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses examines artistic freedom themes in Ovid's work. Current research explores 16th-century Italian artists' reinterpretations of Ovid's Arachne episode, linking it to debates on artistic obscenity.
Her teaching spans undergraduate and graduate seminars on Latin poets (Ovid, Horace, Vergil, Catullus) and broader courses on Roman civilization and women in antiquity. She has also contributed to material culture studies, including work on Middle Cypriote pottery and Sophocles' Antigone.
