Tashi examines human and animal relationships in ancient Greco-Roman literature and visual art with a posthumanistic lens, and makes connections to the human-animal ethics and values in medical contexts. Additionally, she conducts extensive research on classical reception in contemporary visual art and literature, gender and sexuality in Greek and Latin literature, and Latin language pedagogy in contemporary classrooms.

She serves as Chair of the Pegasus National Mythology Exam, a national exam administered by Excellence Through Classics (an organization under the American Classical League). Tashi is also a graduate board member of ReMeDHe: Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity. For the past two years, she has volunteered as a mentor in the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus.

Tashi Treadway earned a bachelor’s degree in Classics cum laude (2019) at Princeton University. Her senior thesis, Rape Isn’t Merely Metaphorical: A Study of Rape Representations in Receptions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses investigates literary and visual receptions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to examine how cultural perceptions of rape have formed and transformed. Before entering the Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, Tashi was a Fulbright Fellow and English Teaching Assistant in Germany. Her travels as a researcher have taken her to Cuba where she examined classical references in Cuban propaganda, and to Greece where she investigated aspects of the Greek educational system for refugee children.