Kristina Milnor

AWESOME professor. I took Classics and Film with her and she does a great job of taking some formidable texts and making them accessible and even relatable. She is very outgoing and quirky and friendly. Class is spent productively and enjoyably. Would highly recommend!

Kristina Milnor is a sweetheart who cares about her students! Her lectures are very clear and comprehensive. She does a good job of organizing the course and makes sure that students have the opportunity to participate in class discussion. Her TA, Kat, is also amazing and incredibly thoughtful. I always looked forward to this class because the material was genuinely interesting and Prof Milnor puts effort into making the lecture interesting. She is also very organized and will provide the different essay prompts early. She will also read drafts or excerpts from papers for feedback, making it pretty straightforward to do well. She gives you a list of the readings covered in the midterm and the final in advance. If you're committed to the class, do the readings, and participate, it isn't difficult to do well. This is also a really valuable course given that classics function as the foundations for so many other disciplines and historically marginalize women. This is a really enjoyable class that you will get a lot out of.

Milnor is a really nice person and a great lecturer! I had her for Reacting to the Past. The nature of the class doesn't really call for much professor involvement, as the class is student-run. Sometimes that was frustrating because she would grade me down for something that she never mentioned in class because every class she would just watch us and not say anything. But if you have her, GO TO HER OFFICE HOURS!! She is so great in office hours because she tells you exactly what she expects and then if you do it she will give you an A. Overall she's an incredibly nice person, and this class is SUPER FUN!! I highly recommend.

She can teach you 2 years worth of Latin in 12 weeks if you're willing to put in the effort. Very, very, very good at what she does. She genuinely cares and goes through every single line and will answer every question with more patience than is humanly possible.

AMAZING. seriously, take any class with her. she's amazingly smart and somehow makes latin hilariously funny. and easy to understand. she must be, like, a witch doctor or something.

Reacting to the Past is in general an interesting course. It's kind of fun, especially if you like public speaking. Prefessor Milnor was very enthusiastic, and she really seemed to enjoy the class. Her grading was very generous. By my calculations, making about three well-informed or provocative statements per class gets you an A in participation. The papers were all essentially creative writing exercises; you just write a speech from the point of view of your character. If you include a decent amount of quotes, you will get A's. I've heard Carnes, the other Reacting prof, is much harder. So, basically, reacting with Milnor was fun, and it was a really easy A.

Prof. Milnor is one of the best teachers in the department. She is very accessible. She truly wants you to learn the material and will help any way she can. As an elementary language class, the grammar can get pretty boring at times, but she works hard to keep the subject interesting. I would recommend any class that she teaches!!!

I mean don't write a thesis if you don't want. 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Spring 2021 Course: LATNUN3998_003_2021_1-SUPERVISEDRSRCHINLATINLIT : LATNUN3998_003_2021_1 - SUPERVISED RSRCH IN LATIN LIT Instructor: Katharina Volk

This is one of my favorite classes that I have taken to date. Prof. Milnor has a dry wit and an engaging way of lecturing-- class always flew by. Her commentary made some of the drier material bearable, and she is aware that some of the films are a little hard to get through. The movies and texts were interesting on their own, but Prof. Milnor's extensive background knowledge filled in gaps and placed each in context of social and politic events. I liked the first half of the course better, as it focused on Greek texts and their film adaptations, but the second half (Roman texts and adaptations) was still interesting, just not as engaging for me. I took it as a non-Classics or Language major, and I feel that I got 97% out of the class. Some of the references were lost on me, but Prof. Milnor does a great job at introducing different themes and periods in Classical literature necessary for the class. Overall, this is one of the best classes I have taken (with one of the best Professors!) and I can't recommend it enough.

Prof. Milnor really knows her stuff. Not only is she a great professor, she is also a very "real" teacher who understands her students' needs not only as students but also as human beings. This class was pretty hard, but it was also interesting...mostly because of her lectures. The reading is not always necessary (note: you do not need to read what is on courseworks...she actually tells us this in passing...just the "primary texts" and you will be just fine). I definitely recommend this class and honestly, any class with Professor Milnor. Really, she has a "gold nugget" for a reason.