Salve! I'm Jamie (Jacobus Latine, they/them/ille/eum pronouns). I received my BA and MS in Mathematics from Harvard University in 2013 with a heavy dose of English poetry and immediately after fell down the Latin and Greek rabbit hole. I have had the immense pleasure of studying and living in Latin at various conventicula, which led me to communities that have made Latin social and alive for me. My day job for seven years was teaching gifted and neurodivergent middle and high school students, where I started as a generalist and moved to teaching Latin, Spanish, Greek, and linguistics.

Eventually, I came back to academia and am now a 4th year PhD student in classics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. There, I focus on multilingual letters written between Early Modern scientists, literary translation projects, and reading and teaching understudied Latin and Greek texts of all sorts. I'm committed to addressing issues of race, colonialism and class that are baked into the history of classics as a discipline and continue to limit access to and interest in Latin today. I believe that one small but important step forward there is remaking the "canon" to expand authors, periods, and themes researchers and teachers in classics pay attention to. I am working on learning and teaching reception of ancient stories beyond--and often instead of--what dead white European men wrote. In my extra-Latin life, I love my choir, doing poetry and storytelling, and photography. 

www.jamiekennethbanks.com