Angela Pitts (apitts2)

Professor

James Farmer Hall Room 238
apitts2@umw.edu
540-654-1023

Academic Degrees

B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison

Angela Pitts in the News

UMW Celebrates Faculty Awards to Start the Fall Semester

Each year, the University of Mary Washington opens the semester with an all-faculty meeting, celebrating contributions to the UMW community, dedicated expertise to fields of study, and support and mentorship of students. In fall 2024, five faculty members earned awards for their commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching, as well Read more…

Pitts Speaks on Women’s Writings of Ancient Greece

Professor of Classics Angela L. Pitts spoke at the annual Eta Sigma Phi lecture on Wednesday, April 12, in Lee Hall. Eta Sigma Phi is the national collegiate honor society for students of Greek and Latin. Pitts delivered a talk on women's writings of ancient Greece titled "Surviving Loss: Women's Writings of Read more…

Pitts’ Book Wins Bolchazy Pedagogy Award

The Classical Association of the Middle, West and South (CAMWS) has awarded UMW Classics Professor Angela Pitts and co-authors the 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award for their book, Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome, published by Routledge in June, 2022. The Bolchazy-Carducci Pedagogy Award recognizes a book in the field of classical Read more…

Mary Washington Classics Program Shines as No. 1 Among Student Rankings

University of Mary Washington sophomore Brooke Prevedel considered dozens of schools in her quest to study ancient Greece and Rome in college. What she learned about the classics program at UMW catapulted it to the top of her list and convinced her to move 2,000 miles across the country from Read more…

Pop-Up Startup: Classics Major Opens LGBTQ+ Bookstore

Andy Unger would use his college years to lay the groundwork for the LGBTQ+ bookstore he longed to open. But buying inventory and finding a space in which to sell it – the classics major figured all that would have to wait until after he graduated. Except it didn’t. Unger Read more…

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