Jasmine Akiyama-Kim

Postdoctoral Fellow in Classical Studies

Primary Academic Program: Classical Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Biography: Originally from the West Coast, Jasmine Akiyama-Kim holds a PhD in classics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on historical and literary texts of the Roman principate, with a particular interest in issues of mimesis, genealogy, and time. Her first book project, provisionally entitled Simulacra of Nero: Imposture, Succession, and Recognition in Imperial Literature, examines how Latin and Greek authors under the principate theorized succession vis-à-vis other mimetic discourses. She has regularly presented her research at annual meetings of the Society for Classical Studies. At Bard she has taught Latin at all levels, “The Roman World,” a course on imposture and performativity in Roman culture, and a course on conceptions of race and landscape in the ancient Mediterranean. She also has experience teaching pedagogical theory and practice. She is always happy to talk with students who are curious about Greece and Rome under the emperors.



BA, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon; MA, PhD, UCLA. At Bard since 2024.  
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