Prof. Stephanie Ann Frampton

Associate Professor of Literature
Co-Section Head, Literature
Co-Chair, Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies

Primary DLC

Literature

MIT Room: 14N-434

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Classical Literature
Critical Theory
Digital Humanities
History of the Book
Latin and Greek Language

Research Summary

Professor Frampton is Associate Professor of Literature, Co-Chair of the Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies, and Faculty Director of the Programs in Digital Humanities at MIT. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Comparative Literature in 2011 and a Bachelor’s in Classics and Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her first book, Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid, appeared with Oxford University Press in 2019.

Recent Work