Graduate Courses

Please consult the online course catalog for complete course information and descriptions. Course registration information can be found on the JHU Public Course Search website.

Additional information about requirements can be found on the requirements page.

Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.040.644 (01)	Reading & Writing in Pre-Modern Europe	T 2:00PM - 4:30PM	Celenza, Chris S.	BLC 2043	Spring 2026	Description: This course has a fourfold aim: First, it is designed to familiarize participants with the basics of Latin paleography from Roman antiquity through the age of printing with moveable type; throughout, we will practice deciphering literary and documentary sources of various types, even as we concentrate on the evolution of different writing styles. Second, we will think about paleography’s status as a discipline. That is, the term “paleography” dates back to 1708 and Montfaucon’s classic work, Palaeographia Graeca. However, it was only in the late nineteenth century in the world of the German research university that paleography came into the orbit of the Geisteswissenschaften as a “Hilfswissenschaft.” Both implicitly and explicitly throughout the seminar we shall be asking what consequences that move entailed. Third, we will study the manner in which printing with moveable type changed western graphic culture: was printing revolutionary or evolutionary? Fourth, we will become familiar with certain aspects of “the history of the book,” discovering as we do what sorts of questions scholars in this broad field of scholarly endeavor have been asking recently. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: n/a
AS.040.674 (01)	Aeschylus’ Oresteia	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Gerolemou, Maria G	Gilman 108	Spring 2026	Description: The graduate seminar on the only surviving Greek trilogy, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, focuses on close readings of key passages from all three plays — Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides. The course examines the trilogy’s theatrical power, political resonances, gender dynamics, and its engagement with scientific and philosophical thought. Discussions will consider how Aeschylus weaves these elements into a unified dramatic and intellectual vision, attending both to the original performance context and to the plays’ enduring relevance. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.040.710 (01)	Reading Latin Poetry	MW 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Smith, Joshua M	Gilman 192	Spring 2026	Description: This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.308. Recommended Course Background: AS.040.207-AS.040.208. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (01)	Independent Study		Roller, Matthew		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (02)	Independent Study		Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (03)	Independent Study		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (04)	Independent Study		Butler, Shane		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (05)	Independent Study		Smith, Joshua M		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (07)	Independent Study		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (08)	Independent Study		Pandey, Nandini		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.802 (09)	Independent Study		Gerolemou, Maria G		Spring 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 2.00 - 9.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.810 (01)	Exam Preparation		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Spring 2026	Description: Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (01)	Dissertation Research		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (03)	Dissertation Research		Roller, Matthew		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (04)	Dissertation Research		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (05)	Dissertation Research		Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (06)	Dissertation Research		Butler, Shane		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (07)	Dissertation Research		Smith, Joshua M		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.815 (08)	Dissertation Research		Pandey, Nandini		Spring 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (01)	Summer Independent Research		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (02)	Summer Independent Research		Butler, Shane		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (03)	Summer Independent Research		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 18/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (04)	Summer Independent Research		Pandey, Nandini		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 19/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (05)	Summer Independent Research		Roller, Matthew		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 14/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (06)	Summer Independent Research		Smith, Joshua M		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (07)	Summer Independent Research		Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.816 (08)	Summer Independent Research		Celenza, Chris S.		Summer 2026	Description: Summer independent research for doctoral students. Credits: 9.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.614 (01)	Objects as Storytellers: Micro Retellings of the Ancient Mediterranean	W 12:30PM - 3:00PM	Anderson, Emily S.K.	Gilman 150	Fall 2026	Description: How does an ancient object speak, and how do we speak for it? What stories can it convey about its life and relations, and are they coherent, interesting, reliable? What of its silences? This seminar draws together hands-on work with objects in the Archaeological Museum and discussion of readings in relevant areas of material culture theory, ancient studies, anthropology, art history, museology, and cultural heritage studies, in order to examine different approaches that have been brought to bear on ancient things in attempts to generate communications about their pasts and presents. We will consider how different disciplinary and historical interests shape these stories, with implications for the fundamental identity of the object. Each seminar participant will work with ancient objects in the museum’s collection to craft alternative accounts of their existences, through which we will consider how each version has the potential to expand, conceal, and manipulate knowledge and connections. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/6 Tags: n/a
AS.040.674 (01)	Aeschylus’ Oresteia	M 12:00PM - 2:30PM	Gerolemou, Maria G		Fall 2026	Description: The graduate seminar on the only surviving Greek trilogy, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, focuses on close readings of key passages from all three plays—Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides. The course examines the trilogy’s theatrical power, political resonances, and gender dynamics, with particular attention to questions of authority, violence, kinship, and the reconfiguration of justice from the oikos to the polis. It also explores Aeschylus’ engagement with scientific, philosophical, and legal thought, situating the plays within broader intellectual debates of the fifth century BCE. Readings will be conducted in Greek for those with the necessary language preparation, while students without Greek will work with reliable English translations; all discussion will remain fully integrated across linguistic levels. Throughout, the seminar attends both to the original performance context of the trilogy and to its enduring relevance, asking how Aeschylus forges a unified dramatic and intellectual vision that continues to shape thinking about law, gender, and collective responsibility. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/15 Tags: n/a
AS.040.707 (01)	Reading Latin Prose	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	ni Mheallaigh, Karen	Gilman 108	Fall 2026	Description: This reading seminar is intended to train graduate students in direct and critical work on primary sources. Co-listed with AS.040.307. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/3 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (01)	Independent Study		Roller, Matthew		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (02)	Independent Study		Butler, Shane		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (03)	Independent Study		Smith, Joshua M		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (04)	Independent Study		Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (05)	Independent Study		Pandey, Nandini		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (06)	Independent Study		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.801 (07)	Independent Study		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Fall 2026	Description: This course enables the student to pursue individual investigation and reading in a field of special interest, under the direct supervision of a member of the Classics faculty. By special arrangement, at the discretion of the Instructor. Credits: 3.00 - 9.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 5/5 Tags: n/a
AS.040.809 (01)	Exam Preparation		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Fall 2026	Description: Study in preparation for a comprehensive oral exam, required to become a PhD candidate, and consisting of three fields in classics and related areas. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.812 (01)	TA Practicum		Butler, Shane		Fall 2026	Description: This course is to develop essential teaching skills. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 20/20 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (01)	Dissertation Research		ni Mheallaigh, Karen		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (02)	Dissertation Research		Anderson, Emily S.K.		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (03)	Dissertation Research		Roller, Matthew		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (04)	Dissertation Research		Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (05)	Dissertation Research		Butler, Shane		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (06)	Dissertation Research		Smith, Joshua M		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (07)	Dissertation Research		Pandey, Nandini		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.040.814 (08)	Dissertation Research		Celenza, Chris S.		Fall 2026	Description: Graduate dissertation research with advisor. Credits: 10.00 - 20.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a