Elena Giusti is Assistant Professor in Latin at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge. Her research focuses on Roman imperial literature and its receptions, with a special interest in post-colonial and race theories. She is the author of Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid (2018), co-editor of Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race (forthcoming, 2026) and Classics and Italian Colonialism, forthcoming with Brill/De Gruyter in book series entitled ANTIC (Anticolonial Classics: Race, Imperialism, and the Ancient Mediterranean), of which she is co-editor-in-chief.