{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"metaslider-id-219\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-106-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-219 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default-base\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Slider-home page\" data-height=\"220\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_219\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_219\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-220 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-04-29 16:44:36\" data-filename=\"cropped-IMG_1819-700x220.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/cropped-IMG_1819-700x220.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"700\" alt=\"Images by UF Professor Jennifer A. 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Rea\" class=\"slider-219 slide-221 msDefaultImage\" title=\"cropped-IMG_0808.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-222 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-04-29 16:44:37\" data-filename=\"cropped-IMG_0280-700x220.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/cropped-IMG_0280-700x220.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"700\" alt=\"Images by UF Professor Jennifer A. Rea\" class=\"slider-219 slide-222 msDefaultImage\" title=\"cropped-IMG_0280.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-223 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-04-29 16:44:37\" data-filename=\"copy-cropped-perpetua_page2-700x220.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/copy-cropped-perpetua_page2-700x220.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"700\" alt=\"Faith, Gender and Power in the Roman Empire\" class=\"slider-219 slide-223 msDefaultImage\" title=\"copy-cropped-perpetua_page2.jpg\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Faith, Gender and Power in the Roman Empire<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor of Classics and Department Chair<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempjrea\/files\/webphoto.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-146 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempjrea\/files\/webphoto-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"black and white photo of Professor Jennifer A. Rea standing in front of white marble statues and scaffolding\" width=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/webphoto-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/webphoto-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/webphoto-200x272.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/files\/webphoto-300x408.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a> Professor Jennifer A. Rea&#8217;s research explores the intersections between ancient Rome and modern science fiction and fantasy. Her love of the classics began when she was five years old and her parents took her to visit the Colosseum in Rome. And when her father took her to see the real live wolf that used to be on display on the Capitoline hill, she decided to study Latin so she could learn more about Rome&#8217;s origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Her first book,<em> Legendary Rome<\/em>, explored three poets&#8217; reinventions of Rome&#8217;s legendary foundations (the story of Romulus and Remus) in the context of\u00a0post-civil war Augustan Rome. Her most recent book, <em>Perpetua&#8217;s Journey: Faith, Gender and Power in the Roman Empire, <\/em>is a graphic history (Oxford University Press, 2018). <em>Perpetua&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Journey<\/em>\u00a0challenges critical assumptions about gender roles, legal authority and individual rights and freedoms in Roman Africa during the 3rd C CE.\u00a0(For more about the\u00a0graphic history, look\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/ushe\/product\/perpetuas-journey-9780190238711?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>She is the recipient of an NEH stipend to attend the seminar on Roman Religion and the Ursula K. Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Current research projects include a book chapter on allusions to Vergil in Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s <em>Snowpiercer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Rea&#8217;s most popular undergraduate courses include Classics and Science Fiction, Heroes, Gods and Monsters, and Rome: The Eternal City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:jrea@ufl.edu\">jrea@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone: (352) 392-2075<br>\nOffice: 139 Dauer Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/jrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}