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Clara Rae Marie Bosak-Schroeder

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Clara Rae Marie Bosak-Schroeder

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In 2015, Clara Bosak-Schroeder (she/they) joined the Classics department of UIUC where she is also an affiliate of History, Medieval Studies, Comparative and World Literature, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. They received their PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan, with certificates in Greek and Roman History and Graduate Teaching, and a BA in Classical Languages from UC Berkeley.

Since joining UIUC, Clara has won a Faculty Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute (2017-2018), a Junior Fellowship from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory (2018-2020), a LEAP Scholar Award (2018-2020), a Junior Fellowship from the Illinois Center for Advanced Study (2021-2022), a COVID-19 Revitalization Fellowship (2025-2026) and a General Education Innovation Award (2025-2026).

Clara works in reception and museum studies, creative nonfiction, and at the intersection of classics and the environmental humanities. Her first book, Other Natures: Environmental Encounters With Ancient Greek Ethnography (UC Press 2020), demonstrates that ancient Greek authors cast humans and nonhumans in complex, interdependent relationships.  Clara's creative non-fiction has appeared in Avidly, Bellingham Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Zone 3; these and other essays form Objects of Wonder, Clara's second book project.
 
Clara has curated exhibits at the Krannert Art Museum and The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. They founded and continue to advise CripAntiquity, an advocacy organization for neurodivergent and disabled students, instructors, scholars, and artists in ancient studies.

Research Interests

classical reception studies; creative nonfiction; museum practice; classics and the environmental humanities; Greek and Roman historiography and technical literature; feminist science studies and new materialisms

Office Address

4045 FLB
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

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