Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne is the John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of Classics and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 2016. Her scholarship centers on the educational practices and intellectual culture of ancient Greece and how institutions of schooling in antiquity shaped the legacy of Classical Greece to the present. She has published several articles on Greek literature and cultural history in Classical Philology and Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, and recently co-edited a volume on “Documentality: New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature” (2022) with colleagues Scott DiGiulio and Inger Kuin.

Her current book in progress, “An Education in Fiction,” argues that literate education in antiquity rigorously trained students to discern fact from fiction in written and oral narratives. This research has been awarded a 2023 NEH Summer Stipend. Arthur-Montagne looks forward to collaborating with fellow members of the Karsh Institute of Democracy and partners to explore the relationships between democracy, education, and the humanities in societies past and present.