James Brian Ker, a Ph.D. candidate in Classics, addresses in his dissertation, Nocturnal Letters: Practicing Time in Imperial Rome, the discourse on time and identity in the literature and society of Rome in the first century CE, with an emphasis on the Epistulae morales of Seneca the younger. Focusing on the household, where time is organized by means of spaces and techniques traditionally used for managing economic patrimony, Ker argues that what he calls temporal dynamics gave scope to an intensified discourse on temporality, or the practice of time, making possible as well the notion of timescapes in which a person’s spatial practice also marks a relation to time. James Brian Ker holds a Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship in 2001-2002.