Rosa Maria Motta
A native of Sicily, Rosa is a PhD Candidate in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia and a full time Classical Studies instructor at Christopher Newport University, where in addition to Latin and Italian, she teaches Mythic Imagination, Roman Art and Archaeology, and Archeology of Greco-Roman Sicily.
Rosa's current research interests are in Greek and Roman coins, in particular the reciprocal feedback between the political, socio-culturally and territorially specific iconography of coins and identity construction; the semiotic function of coins as primary vehicles through which meaning was constructed in a pecuniary culture; and the interactions between dominant/élite and non-élite beliefs and identities that shape a given society. Her doctoral research, Greek and Roman Coins of Tel Dor: A Study of Material Culture and Cultural Identity, was awarded the Albright Institute's Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the summer 2010.
She is also a fellow of the Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies of the University of Virginia.
Contact
Prof. Rosa Motta - MCLL
Christopher Newport University
1 University Place
Newport News, Virginia, 23606
rosa.motta@cnu.edu