Susannah Wright

Susannah Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Rice University, and an affiliate of the History Department. Her research focuses on Greco-Roman literature, history, and culture, with an emphasis on its medieval and modern receptions. She is particularly interested in Latin and Greek epic texts, gender in antiquity, Roman political literature, and ancient/medieval Trojan War histories.

Education includes a B.A. from Rice University, followed by an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (2024). Her current book project examines gendered ideas about grief and decorum in epic verse from the Iliad to the 12th century CE. She co-authored a verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid (forthcoming via W.W. Norton in 2025) and has published on medieval Irish adaptations of classical epics. At Rice, she teaches languages and courses on Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in medieval/modern contexts.

Her teaching experience includes Harvard University, where she instructed Greek and Latin literature from Homer to the Middle Ages. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, covering authors like Plato, Euripides, Caesar, Suetonius, Augustine, and Bernard of Clairvaux.