Allannah Karas
Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami in Florida.
Dr. Allannah Karas is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami in Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Classics from the City University of New York (CUNY). Before arriving at Miami, she taught and directed the Greek and Roman Studies program at Valparaiso University.
With the support of an American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, she spent the past academic year working at Columbia University on her book project, Persuasion without Argument: The Violent Goddess at the Roots of Rhetoric. In addition to writing about inducement (Greek peitho) in Greek drama and rhetoric, she also studies creative reconfigurations of Greco-Roman myth and figures done by Black American painters, sculptors, and ceramic artists.