Cristiana Sogno

Cristiana Sogno (born 1969) is a Classicist and Professor in the English Department at Fordham University, New York. Her research focuses on letter-writing, biography, and the reception and adaptation of Greek and Latin texts.

Education

Probable depiction of Q. Aurelius Symmachus from an ivory diptych depicting his apotheosis.

Sogno received her PhD from Yale University in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Career Between Senate and Court. The ancient historian John F. Matthews supervised her thesis.

Career and research

Sogno published her PhD thesis as a book, Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Biography, with the University of Michigan Press in 2006. In 2010, she co-edited the volume From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE, edited with Scott McGill and Edward Watts. This is a Festschrift to celebrate the seventieth birthday of John Matthews. Sogno has published extensively on letter writing and letter collections from antiquity. In 2016 she published A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide to Letter Collections in Late Antiquity, co-ed with Bradley Storin and Edward Watts.

Bibliography

• Formisano, Marco and Cristiana Sogno. "Origins and Original Moments in Late Greek and Latin Texts." Arethusa, vol. 54 no. 3, 2021, p. 269-273
• 'A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses', Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, edited by B. MacQueen, D. Konstan, M. Futre-Pinheiro (2017)
• A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide to Letter Collections in Late Antiquity, co-ed with B. Storin and E. Watts (2016)
• 'The Ways of veritas: Historiography, Panegyric, Knowledge', co-authored with M. Formisano, in Spätantike Konzeptionen von Literatur, edited by J. Stenger
• Ebbeler, Jennifer V. & Sogno, Cristiana (2007). 'Religious Identity and the Politics of Patronage: Symmachus and Augustine', História 56 (2) 230-242