Tashi’s main research project examines human and animal relationships in ancient Greco-Roman literature and visual art, and makes connections to the human-animal boundaries in medical contexts. Her other interests also include classical reception in contemporary visual art and literature, gender and sexuality in Greek literature, and Latin language pedagogy.

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.