A specialist in Roman poetry, Mira Seo has been deeply engaged with liberal arts education, curriculum development, and globalizing the Humanities throughout her career.  Mira began her career at Swarthmore College followed by the University of Michigan, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in the Departments of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature. In 2012 she was recruited to the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS College, a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. At Yale-NUS, Mira led an interdisciplinary Humanities faculty team to design a new Common Curriculum and co-founded an innovative minor in Global Antiquity. A dedicated teacher, Mira was the inaugural recipient of the Yale-NUS Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award in 2019.  She has served in numerous leadership roles at Yale-NUS (Head of Studies of Literature, co-Chair of many task forces on policy development, and Director of the Common Curriculum), and from 2023-24 Mira served as Vice Provost of Fulbright University in Vietnam and Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Mira has published on Roman poetry of the first century CE, the neo-Latin poetry of Juan Latino, an African Latinist in 16th century Granada, and diversifying Classics (Exemplary Traits: Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry, Oxford 2013; “Classics for All” AJP 140.4, 2019). Since 2024 Mira has been the Distinguished Provost’s Fellow in Classical Studies at Wesleyan University.  Her current scholarly works in progress  include Curious Readings, a comparative study of trans-species empathy in Homer and Vālmīki, and a digital humanities project on the taste profiles and “terroirs” of ancient wines.