Kyle Rutherford

Hi, I'm Kyle, a Ph.D. student from Batesville, Arkansas! I'm primarily interested in what we can learn about the lives of people in the ancient Mediterranean from the literature they left behind and how later people experienced and interpreted these cultural remains. My primary areas of study (so far) have been new comedy, the ancient novel, and classical game studies. I'm also interested in the stagecraft and performance of ancient drama, late antiquity, and classical reception in the Middle Ages. After graduating with a degree in Classics from Hendrix College in Conway, AR, in 2022, I pursued an M.A. in Classical Studies at the University of Oregon, in Eugene. I graduated from the U of O in 2024, and have been at the University of Illinois ever since! At the University of Oregon, I helped host the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest 2024 conference in Eugene. At Hendrix, I served as translation director (and played Lucrio) in a production of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus.