Dr. Ellen Lee

@ellenleephd.bsky.social

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Feminist, queer, & cognitive approaches to ancient lit + equity pedagogy in language classrooms. UMich PhD, UTexas BA. USW Steelworker. (she/ista) FirstGen

Attic red-figure stemless kylix cup, with interior depicting a seated Dionysus and (quoting the database description) "before him a dancing maenad, satyr (?). Maenad wears satyr breeches. Dionysos seated on klismos, himation loosely draped about legs. Garlanded with laurel, holds thyrsos in right hand. Surrounding border of stopped maeanders interspersed with dotted checker."
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Flyer in blue, yellow, and white: RALLY. Defend higher education and free speech! Schenley Plaza, 12pm, April 17. Organized by United Steelworkers Local 1088, University of Pittsburgh, Point Park University, and Robert Morris University Faculty, and American Association of University Professors, University of Pittsburgh chapter, in solidarity with the National Day of Action for Higher Education and all who are opposed to the attacks on our civil liberties.
Me, wearing a United Steelworkers shirt and "Steelworkers for Harris/Walz" sticker, holding up a lanyard that reads "Labor Votes AFL-CIO Union Voter Outreach Volunteer "
Set of ancient anatomical votives, in a museum display (at the Baths of Diocletian museum, Rome), including votives in the shape of a foot, bowels, and a large penis (about the same size as the foot).
Marble funerary altar with a relief depicting the deceased, a boy named Anthus, with his dog, c. 1st cent. CE. The boy holds a scroll in one hand and his garment in the other, as the small dog looks up at him. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Screenshot of tweet from 07 March 2023: "Hey #LatinTeach, a query: if I were to publish an OER supplement to Wheelock, that would include videos, exempla, exercises, & reading passages meant to extend past a strict grammar+translation approach and diversify the view of the ancient world, would you use it? / Does this already exist? Is it a desideratum? I'm thinking a lot of people use Wheelock for a lot of reasons, so it might be nice to have (and I've developed most of these materials for my own classes already)."
Getty Museum description reads: "Engraved Gem with a Youth and his Dog inset into a Hollow Ring, 3rd–2nd century B.C., A nude youth leaning on a staff bends over to feed his dog on this Italic gem set into a hollow gold ring."
Detail of olive leaf (or wheat?) on c-shaped handle
Kylix (or maybe kantharos?) shaped ice bucket, made of plastic in a harvest gold color, with a deep bowl, two elongated c-shaped handles featuring olive leaf relief details, and a ridged base.
Mosaic panel depicting Hercules and Omphale, from a mosaic depicting the Labors of Hercules from Llíria (Valencia), 3rd cent CE, National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid. Hercules, bearded and darker-skinned, is represented in women's clothing, standing at Omphale's feet, while Omphale is lighter-skinned and mostly naked, draped in Hercules's lion skin and holding his club, sitting on a raised throne.
Still from /Barbie/: image of Barbie dancing, asking "Do you guys ever think about - The Roman Empire?" (with "The Roman Empire" in a pink font, different from the white subtitles in the image, indicating that it has replaced the original dialogue, which should read "death")
Fragment of Etruscan black pottery, depicting a person giving birth, in relief; "The image show the head and shoulders of a baby emerging from a mother. Portrayed with her face in profile and a long ponytail running down her back, the woman has her knees and one arm raised." (quotation from linked article)
Crispy blackened layers of a very burned clump of tortilla chips