Lena Cavicchia

Lena Cavicchia (she/her) is a co-terminal MA student on the Language and Literature track with an interest in Latin literature. Her research focuses on Bulgarian independence- and communist-era reception of Augustan-age poetry; her undergraduate honors thesis examines Bulgarian poetic depictions of Orpheus and Eurydice as figures of nationalism and protest, specifically through the genre of travelogs. She is interested in further exploring the role of Orpheus and Latin literature in Bulgarian nation-building and literary propaganda.

As an undergraduate, Lena was a managing editor for Stanford’s undergraduate journal Aisthesis and a writing aide for the Classics Majors Seminar. She is currently serving her second year as one of the Classics department’s peer mentors and is completing her minor in Italian. Outside of philology, Lena has been involved in archeological fieldwork, including conservation work at a Greek necropolis in Bulgaria and the excavation of a Roman villa in Romania.