JOSEPHINE DEWEY

Artist and writer with over five years of experience creating multi-media work that blends poetry, prose, and visual art. My current focus centers on mythology, gender, and embodiment, drawing from classical texts and ancient history to craft illustrated narratives and lyrical explorations. I study literature with a concentration in classics at The Evergreen State College, where I combine philological research with creative practice. My work engages with inherited narratives through collage, language, and image to explore their relevance and transformation in contemporary contexts.

Greece and Italy: An Artistic and Literary Odyssey, The Evergreen State College.
January 2023–June 2023

• Studied the cultures centered in the southern Mediterranean from the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete to the Early Modern Italian states. Primary authors included Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, and Dante.
• 4 credits in Ancient Greek II, with Ancient Greek recitations and performances.
• Completed a research project and illustration of Saint Sebastian and the continuity and iconography across Mediterranean cultures.

Heaven and Earth: Myth, Religion, and Archaeology in Ancient Greece, The Evergreen State College.
September 2023–December 2023

• Explored intersections between ancient myth and material culture, with a focus on how the sacred was imagined, represented, and practiced in Greek antiquity.
• Wrote essays on creation myths across the Mediterranean, the political resonance of The Oresteia in 5th-century Athens, and Homeric models of virtue and identity
• Organized peer-led study sessions to support classmates preparing for archaeology exams

Inscribing the Body: Embodiment and the Performance of Identity in Creative Writing, The Evergreen State College.
January 2024–March 2023

• Produced a chapbook of poems and mixed-media collages rooted in Greek mythology and personal narrative.
• Integrated visual and poetic modes to reflect on gendered embodiment.
• Participated in a final public reading of original work.

Student Originated Studies: Poetics, The Evergreen State College.
April 2024–June 2024

• Studied poetry across traditions, focusing on romanticism, gender, and monstrosity.
• Collaborated in peer workshops and contributed to course structure development.
• Wrote and illustrated a horror novella exploring vampirism, colonization, and the self.

The Feminine Imaginary and Ancient Greece: Sappho, Medea, and Cassandra, The Evergreen State College.
January 2025–March 2025

• Wrote a research essay on the mythic and philosophical construction of gender.
• Compared depictions across Sappho, Euripides, and Aristotle.
• Analyzed connections between ancient ideals and contemporary gender systems