Anna Goddard earned a B.A. in Classics from Clare College, Cambridge in 2008 and an M.A. in Classics from Kings College London in 2009. She entered the Penn Ph.D. program the same year. Anna's primary research focus at present is in Latin poetry. Her undergraduate thesis explored ideas of voice and identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses, followed by a Masters' dissertation on power relations in Ovid's Heroides. She intends to explore further the concept of Roman identity in other poets, especially relating to the conventions of the epic genre. Authors of especial interest beyond Ovid are Virgil, Lucan and Statius.