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 and Succession in Imperial Literature, examines accounts of the emperor Nero and the so-called false Neros in order to analyze how forms of imitation and repetition that sustained the principate also contributed to its dysfunction. 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, and First-Year Seminar; she also has experience teaching courses on 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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