Heather Elomaa earned a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Knox College in 2007 and an M.A. in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. She entered the Penn Ph.D. program that same year. Her research interests lie in the fields of Latin literature and gender studies. Heather's work is particularly focused on Latin of the imperial period — especially the genre of Roman satire. This interest has taken her from an undergraduate thesis on performance and immorality in Juvenal's second and sixth satires to a Master's thesis on literary rivalry between Juvenal and other Roman writers. Heather's other interests include the economics of Greek and Roman prostitution and reception studies.