"All the classical authors have been translated into all languages, so it was not for the sake of studying the classics that they introduced Latin, but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can one call it but a fraud?"

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 Katie Kelp-Stebbins received her BA in Classics and English from Wesleyan University, where she worked as an assistant for the academic publication Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. After forays into publishing at Other Press LLC. and the Karen Gantz Zahler Literary Agency, Katie entered UCSB as a Comparative Literature MA/PhD candidate. Her research interests include comics theory, translation theory and reception theory with a focus on texts in Greek and Latin and their adaptation into English, French and Italian.