Dr. Jared Simard – The Greco-Roman Gods and the Built Environment of New York City

Dr. Simard received his Ph.D. in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2016 and is currently a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in New York University’s School of Liberal Studies. His scholarship primarily focuses on mythology and its reception in modernity. He also has a long-term digital humanities project called Mapping Mythology which seeks to create an online database of mythic art. Dr. Simard has several publications including “The Monument and Altar to Liberty: A Memory Site for the United States’ Own Thermopylae” for the volume War As Spectacle (2015), and a forthcoming chapter for the volume The Reception of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche from 1600 to Today on “Psyche in the Salon.” He is also working on a monograph about the mythic art in Rockefeller Center. This evening he will be talking to us about “Mythical Spaces: The Greco-Roman Gods in the Built Environment of New York City.”