About Julia Hejduk

Julia D. Hejduk is the Reverend Jacob Beverly Stiteler Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University, where she has taught for 18 years, after a decade at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research specialty is ancient Latin poetry, with a focus on religion, women, intertextuality, and acrostics. She has written numerous articles and several books, most recently The God of Rome: Jupiter in Augustan Poetry (Oxford 2020). She is actively involved in modeling charitable conversations on controversial issues.