Tashi Treadway

Tashi Treadway examines human and animal relationships in ancient Greco-Roman literature and visual art with a posthumanistic lens, and makes connections to the human-animal ethics and values in medical contexts. She researches classical reception in contemporary visual art and literature, gender and sexuality in Greek and Latin literature, and Latin language pedagogy in contemporary classrooms.

Ever since her first day of Latin class in middle school, Tashi has been passionate about learning, researching, and teaching classical antiquity and its relevance to modern day contexts. Her journey has led her to human-animal studies, classical reception, and pedagogy studies.

She serves as Chair of the Pegasus National Mythology Exam, a national exam administered by Excellence Through Classics (an organization under the American Classical League). Tashi is also a graduate board member of ReMeDHe: Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity. For the past two years, she has volunteered as a mentor in the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus.

Tashi Treadway is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Classics cum laude (2019) at Princeton University.  Her senior thesis, “Rape Isn’t Merely Metaphorical: A Study of Rape Representations in Receptions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” investigates literary and visual receptions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses to examine how cultural perceptions of rape have formed and transformed. Tashi was a Fulbright Fellow and English Teaching Assistant in Germany, during which she taught English and studied pedagogical methods. Her travels as a researcher have taken her to Cuba where she examined classical references in Cuban propaganda, and to Greece where she investigated aspects of the Greek educational system for refugee children.