The Beldonstevens Blog

I was honored to prepare this translation from Marie-Hélène Lafon's "Les Pays," a beautifully observed portrait of a young woman's...

For anyone needing to reach me about matters academic (e.g., letters of recommendation, thoughts about scholarship, etc.), my longterm...

Inspired by conversation a couple weeks back with fellow h̶a̶r̶d̶-̶c̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶r̶d̶s̶ scholars of classical receptions in science...

This past semester I had the great pleasure of teaching, for the first time, a course I'd long imagined on "Ancient Worlds in Film & TV."...

A week into social distancing, March 16 2020, I wrote: "A thousand years ago, it was last Monday." Those first seven days felt so...

Perhaps I'm not alone in feeling it strange that registration for the fall semester has started? For me, at least, the ongoing crisis has...

The Jewish holiday of Passover (in Hebrew פסח, pesach) starts this week: at sundown on Wednesday 8 April in the 'Gregorian' calendar, or...

In a previous post, I wrote about how I've been thinking through the present situation with help from students in my course on "Ancient...

After a two week hiatus--the first week as scheduled for Spring Break, the second needed as my University, like most others, reconfigured...

Excited to see "Frankenstein and Its Classics" reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review! Dr. Daniel Cook writes that the "wide-ranging yet...