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University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, B.A Professor Johnston has taught at Brandeis since 1975. She is particularly well known not only for her extensive work on Vergil, both his Georgics and his Aeneid, as well as her work in Ancient Religion, but also for her introduction to Latin, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language", the third edition of which will be published in 2014 by Brandeis University (New England Press). As president of the Vergilian Society, she initiated the Society's Symposia Cumana, which she organized annually for the Society for eighteen years (co-sponsored by Brandeis University). More recently she has extended these symposia to other parts of Italy, including Grumentum Nova (2013: June 5-7 2013) “The Role of Animals in Ancient Myth and Religion” and in 2014 to Verona, Italy: (June 18-21, 2014) “The Age of Augustus”(Verona, Italy). The symposia have continued as the Symposium Classicum Peregrinum, since it has been moving to different sites. In 2013 it took place in Grumentum, Italy; in 2014 it took place in Verona, Italy; in 2015 it will take place in Budapest, Hungary, and in 2016 it will be in France. In addition to organizing these symposia, she has edited many volumes of collections of papers from these symposia, as well as continuing to publish her own separate works, most recently a translation of the Aeneid and also an edition and commentary on the (Latin) Sixth book of the Aeneid (now included in a collection of books 1-6 commentaries on the Aeneid), book reviews, and has been quite active in the scholarly world of Classics.