Dianne Elizabeth Boetsch

Dianne Boetsch completed her PhD in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College in 2023 with a dissertation on the influence of Greek Tragedy on Statius’ Thebaid.  Prior to this, in a slow eastward progression, she had received her BA in the northwest at Whitman College and then earned two master’s degrees (Indiana University and Bryn Mawr, respectively).  She will neither confirm nor deny if it took her longer to finish her dissertation than it did for Statius to complete his own epic poem.  

While finishing her degree, she taught at Bryn Mawr College, Ursinus College, and, most recently, The Agnes Irwin School, where she is currently employed.  She has taught Latin there to students from grades 7 to 12 and she will neither confirm nor deny if she has a favorite age to teach (hint: all of them!).  Alongside fellow Agnes Irwin classics faculty, she has received two consecutive summer growth grants to expand the existing textbook used at the school and to write adapted and original passages to supplement the text with a particular focus on peripheral voices in the classical world.