Departmental homepageDr Giusti is currently Assistant Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. She was previously Associate Professor in Latin Literature and Language at the University of Warwick, a Research Fellow in Classics at St John's and University Teacher in Classics at the University of Glasgow. She studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza (BA and MA) and at King’s College Cambridge (PhD).
Dr Giusti supervises students in Latin literature and its receptions, especially on projects that relate Latin literary texts to political, historical and philosophical thought, and on projects that touch upon comparative literature or classical reception. She is also interested in comparisons between Western and Eastern Classics (she can read and speak Japanese and has some basics of Mandarin Chinese) and in the reception of Greco-Roman literature in Japanese literature and culture.
Dr Giusti is broadly interested in Roman literature and thought, with a specialism in Augustan literature and Virgil in particular. She has published articles and book chapters at the junctures between traditional philology, cultural and intellectual history and literary theory, with special interests in ideology critique, postcolonial studies and feminist theories.
Rome's Imagined Africa (monograph in preparation).
‘Africa and the Making of Classical Literature: On Decolonizing Greco-Roman Literature Syllabi’, in M. K. Okyere Asante, D. van Schoor and K. Ackah (eds.) Decolonizing Classics in Africa: History, Strategies, Challenges, and Prospects, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 65.1, 67-78 (2023).
‘Rac(ializ)ing Dido’, Proceedings of the Virgil Society 31, 53-85 (2023).
Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018).
