Nandini Pandey received a B.A. with highest honors in Latin, with a minor in Greek, from Swarthmore—and a second B.A., with a double major in Classics and English, from University College, Oxford. She is entering the Department of Classics to pursue a Ph.D. with a project analyzing the reception of the classics, especially in Augustan Rome and Elizabethan England. This project builds on her Oxford thesis on the ways Elizabethan love poets divert Ovidian love poetry to their own ends, which she wrote while maintaining extracurricular interests in dancing, fencing, and the arts. Sven Ouzman, a graduate student in Anthropology and a 2004–2005 Townsend Fellow, will serve as her mentor.