COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Nava Cohen is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Classics and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Classics. She holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Mathematics with minor in Classics from Northwestern University and a Master of Science in Education from Northwestern University. Prior to returning to Northwestern, Nava taught Latin in Chicago and the northern suburbs. Her research interests include Latin poetry, reception of ancient literature in children's literature, and the ethics of reading ancient text, specifically how we integrate modern understandings of justice and equity with an implicit respect for the text and author.