{"id":5375,"date":"2025-05-23T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T00:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=5375"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T00:52:30","slug":"faculty-erin-lam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/faculty-erin-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Erin Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-hs9ht-c11d24832419fb2b6ce79d7f7c7bb044\">\n.flex_column.av-hs9ht-c11d24832419fb2b6ce79d7f7c7bb044{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-hs9ht-c11d24832419fb2b6ce79d7f7c7bb044 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-24k6c1-9f7cc57ca1bdbe19bd86dfa71642baf8\">\n#top 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avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-7g9jep-6b834031e9175de3fe367e316e061989  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5376 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5376 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-300x200.jpg\" alt='Erin Lam'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"200\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-1030x687.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-9-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Erin Lam<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Assistant Professor, <em>Comparative Literature\/Classics<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D. in Classics, UC Berkeley, 2022<br \/>\nM.A. in Classics, UC Berkeley<br \/>\nM.Phil. in Classics, King\u2019s College, University of Cambridge<br \/>\nB.A. in B.A. Classical Languages, UC Berkeley<br \/>\nB.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology, UC Berkeley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2609<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:emily.graham@ucr.edu\">erinlam@ucsb.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-665369-86dc8639c80a054b2b93efd29613451a\">\n.flex_column.av-665369-86dc8639c80a054b2b93efd29613451a{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 20px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-665369-86dc8639c80a054b2b93efd29613451a av_two_third  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lseyuoyf-4f5df0ad90dc0f74e8288264d12ededd '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>As Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, Dr. Erin Lam teaches courses on love and desire in ancient Greco-Roman and contemporary American poetry, framed through queer and feminist studies.<\/p>\n<p>They specialize in contemporary American queer of color poetry and art, Latin love elegy, and Greek tragedy. Their research engages in a creative practice of reimagining societal structures, relationality, temporality, and inheritance in dialogue with other queer of color artists and poets.<\/p>\n<p>Their current book project, <em>A Hermeneutics of Irreverence: Queer of Color Poets Playing with the \u201cClassical Tradition<\/em>,\u201d theorizes irreverence as a methodology by which contemporary American queer of color artists and writers expand the creative possibilities of interacting with Greco-Roman literary tradition, which rejects them as Other while needing them to define itself as Not Other. Irreverence is an affective alchemization of the racial melancholia that is produced by this liminal position, a disidentification that levels assumed hierarchies of cultural value and transmission, making space for the messiness of queer of color life, death, transition, and everything in between. It manifests through mischievous wordplay, temporal scrambling, queer kinships, and the multiplication and explosion of binaries, all of which reconfigure what it means to \u201ctake\u201d Western tradition \u201cseriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to UC Riverside, Professor Lam held the UC President\u2019s and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCSB, the Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-\/Post-doctoral Fellowship at Bryn Mawr College, and the Pearson Fellowship for study at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<p>They welcome students interested in intersectional queer and feminist theory, Classical reception studies, as well as those working across disciplines and\/or with a creative practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ancienthistorybulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lam-Res-Diff-2.1-2025-72-76.pdf\">Minoritizing Classics<\/a>,\u201d <em>Res Difficiles<\/em> 2.1 (2025): 72-76.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ovidiusjournal.org\/ojs\/index.php\/ovidius\/article\/view\/9\/8\">Breaking Bodies: Materiality and Vulnerability in Heroides 12<\/a>,\u201d <em>Ovidius <\/em>1 (2025): 71-105.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCruising Rome: Queer Orientations in Ovid\u2019s <em>Ars Amatoria<\/em>,\u201d <em>Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome <\/em>(forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntimate Line(ages): Queer Reproductions and Gender Ambiguity in Girodet\u2019s Anacr\u00e9on,\u201d co-authored with C.C. McKee, <em>The Routledge Companion to Art History<\/em>, edited by Jonathan D. Katz (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ephemerality of Textual Origin(al)s in Johanna Hedva\u2019s \u2018Motherload\u2019,\u201d <em>Tragedy Queered<\/em>, edited by Oliver Baldwin (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-2wabz5-57ced96182a78daae837e3d82223107a-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/'  class='avia-button av-2wabz5-57ced96182a78daae837e3d82223107a avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue88c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Back to Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5375\/revisions\/5383"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}