Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana. IL 61801
Office Hours
By appointment only
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Classics
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design
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
Austen, V. (2026). Re-Casting the Gregory Collection: Plaster Cast “Antiquities” and the Formation of “Taste” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Illinois classical studies. https://doi.org/10.5406/23285265.51.1.07
Austen, V. (2025). GARDENS IN ROMAN LITERATURE - (K.S.) Myers Ancient Roman Literary Gardens. Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics. Pp. xviii + 294. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Cased, £59, US$90. ISBN: 978-0-19-777320-8. The Classical Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X25101169
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