I am a graduate student in the department of classics, studying Greek and Latin. My dissertation focuses on declamation (fictive oratory) from the Roman world and the Renaissance. In my spare time I study Neo-Latin, roughly defined as anything in Latin from the Renaissance to the modern day; this semester it's meant sixteenth and seventeenth century Huguenot histories of Florida, seventeenth and eighteenth century praises of Venereal disease, and Latin in twentieth century Senegal. Because I can.