Anna Peterson is associate professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State. Her research focuses on imperial Greek literature, ancient epistolography, ancient comedy, and human-environment relations. Her first book, Laughter on the Fringes: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World, examined the impact of Aristophanic comedy on imperial-era Greek literature, showing how later Greeks renegotiated and reinvented the aggressive and self-reflexive humor of Athenian Old Comedy. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World. Her current research project investigates the depictions of the city of Athens in imperial-era Greek literature.