Victoria E. Pagán is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Florida and the Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2008. Victoria was educated at Kent State University (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and the University of Chicago (PhD). A two-time Ford Foundation fellow, she has also received post-doctoral grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the American Association of University Women. She has written Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (Austin 2004), Rome and the Literature of Gardens (London 2006), and over a dozen articles on imperial Latin literature.