Caitlin Gillespie received an A.B. (Classics, Latin) from Harvard University in 2005 and an M.St. (Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures) from Wadham College, Oxford, in 2006. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies during the following year before entering the Penn Ph.D. program in 2007. Her research focus is on issues of women and gender in antiquity. This interest has taken her from an undergraduate thesis on Ovid's Heroides to a master's dissertation on Ovid's Tristia through to her current work on the women of Tacitus' Annals. She continues to expand a parallel interest in ancient theater through work on the tragic female in Greek drama, and plans to concentrate on the figure of Medea in future projects.