Craig Williams has been teaching at Illinois since 2013. His research interests include Martial and Latin epigram, gender and sexuality in Latin literature and Roman culture, animals in Greek and Latin literature, and the reception of ancient Greece and Rome by Native North American writers. He has been a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität and the Humboldt-Univeristät in Berlin, an Associate of the U of I Center for Advanced Studies, and an NEH fellow for 2018-19.