writer | classicist

Letticia Cosbert Miller is a Toronto-based writer, curator, and PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. Her research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, and she is a 2026–2027 Doctoral Fellow at the Northrop Frye Centre.


Her curatorial and critical writing practice places contemporary artistic practice in conversation with the classical tradition. Her academic research draws on theories of Black Study to examine Roman Republican literature and culture. Her exhibition essays, artist profiles, and art criticism have appeared in the Toronto Star, BlackFlash Magazine, Canadian Art, and MOMUS, as well as in publications by the Aperture Foundation, the Aga Khan Museum, the Gardiner Museum, Akimbo, and others. She has curated exhibitions for Trinity Square Video, The Blackwood, and other institutions.


Letticia is the author of Swimming Up a Dark Tunnel, a collection of essays exploring water as a historical and political site in Black visual culture, published by Gallery 44 in 2022.