Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana. IL 61801
Office Hours
Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00PM
Others, by appointment
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Classics
Highlighted Publications
Austen, V. (2023). Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus. (Ancient Environments). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350265219
Recent Publications
Gardner, C. A. M., & Austen, V. (2025). Wiki Education, the Ancient Mediterranean Classroom, and the Production of Global Knowledge. In C. A. M. Gardner, & S. C. Higgins (Eds.), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (pp. 231-250). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647944-16
Johnston, C. L., Higgins, S. C., Daniels, M., & Austen, V. (2025). The Peopling the Past Project: Multivocality and Multimodality in Ancient Mediterranean Studies Teaching. In C. A. M. Gardner, & S. C. Higgins (Eds.), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (pp. 109-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647944-9
Austen, V. (2023). Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden: (Re)Framing the Hortus. (Ancient Environments). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350265219
Austen, V. (2023). Peristyle Gardens in Pompeii: (S.) SIMELIUS Pompeian Peristyle Gardens. The Classical Review, 73(2), 658-660. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23000392
Austen, V. (2020). Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10. Syllecta Classica, 31(1), 95-122. https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.2020.0008