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
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
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