Felix Racine
Assistant Professor
Ancient History and Classics
Trent University
Canada
Biography
B.A. (Montreal), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Yale) Prof. Racine specializes in ancient geography, education and the construction of identities in the Roman world. His current projects include studies of early printed editions of ancient geographers, Roman legal education and gendered identities among late Roman elites. Prof. Racine has taught at the University of St Andrews and McGill University, notably courses on ancient travel, Greco-Roman Egypt, the Second Sophistic and the later Roman Empire, as well as language courses in Greek and Latin. He is known to draw comics but can’t stay on model. In 2016-2017, Prof. Racine will be teaching: AHCL 2102H: History of Ancient Rome AHCL 2105H: History of Ancient Greece AHCL 3110H: Augustan Principate and Origins AHCL 3141H: Roman Travellers and Tourists AHCL 3142H: Building Rome’s Provinces AHCL 4001H Senior Seminar: Recyclable Antiquity
Research Interest
ancient geography, education and the construction of identities in the Roman world
Publications
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Fluid Elite Masculinities in Post-Roman Gaul.†In Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity, ed. P. Spickard. University of Nebraska Press
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Pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers and the School Tradition.†In Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. J. Papy and E. Gielen. Turnhout: Brepols
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Teaching Geography with Solinus: Martianus and Priscian.†In The Collectanea of Gaius Julius Solinus: New Perspectives, ed. K. Brodersen, 157-70. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike. 2014.
