Shane Bjornlie, Ph.D.

Areas of Expertise

Greek and Roman Political Thought, Civilization and Culture

Selected Research and Publications

• A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy, co-edited with Jonathan Arnold and Kristina Sessa (Brill, forthcoming 2015)
• "The rhetoric of varietas and epistolary encyclopedism in the Variae of Cassiodorus", presented at Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity X, University of Ottawa (March, 2013)
• "Epistolary satire in the Variae of Cassiodorus", presented at UC San Diego (February, 2013)
• "Constantine in the imperial polemics of the 6th century", presented at the Life and Legacy of Constantine symposium, Claremont Colleges (February, 2013)
• Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae (Cambridge UP, December, 2012)

Selected Awards and Affiliations

• Andrew Heiskell Post-doctoral Rome Prize Fellow
• Contributing Faculty, Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Classics Program
• Member of the Editorial Board, Bryn Mawr Classical Review