Victoria Corwin
Cornell University
Research Topic: The Gorgon’s Burden: Empowering Women with Mythology, Archaeology, and Hidden Community
Victoria is a PhD candidate (MA 2023) in Literatures in English at Cornell University, where she is also a member of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on how Nineteenth century women writers and activists utilize the mythology, culture, art, and archaeology (both real and imagined) of Bronze Age Greece to create their own identities and stories.
She received her BA in English and Classical Archaeology in 2019 from Dartmouth College, specializing in the Bronze Age in the early stages of her ongoing project. Victoria has participated in excavations in the Athenian Agora and at home in Ithaca, NY as part of CIAMS's Underground Railroad community projects.