I completed my PhD in June 2015 and am currently an Instructor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Starting in August 2016, I will be an Assistant Professor in the same department. You can follow me at https://un-lincoln.academia.edu/MatthewLoar. 

My dissertation, “Hercules at the Crossroads of Augustan Literature and Art,” examined literary and material representations of the two Augustan myths of Hercules (with Cacus and Omphale), arguing that they address two separate anxieties about faltering normative power structures in Augustan Rome: the former speaks to anxieties about succession; the latter engages with anxieties about masculinity.