DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS

Faculty by Specialization

Poetry Gibbons Hopman Platte Weintritt West	Art, Archeology, Material Cultures Byros Gunter Tataranni Terpstra Wallace	Drama Gibbons Hopman Monoson Wallace West
Materiality of Texts, Epigraphy, Papyrology Byros Terpstra	Poetics, literary theory Gibbons Hopman Monoson Weintritt  West	Other Antiquities Byros (provincial Dacia) Gunter (Near East, Persia) Platte (Persia, India) Tataranni (Samnite Italy) Terpstra (Levant)
Receptions, classical traditions Gibbons Kraut Hopman Monoson Tataranni Weintritt West	Philosophy Kraut Monoson Wallace	Linguistics Platte
Religion Byros	History Byros Tataranni Terpstra Wallace	Politics Kraut Monoson

Particular Interests and Expertise

Graziela Byros: Religions of the Roman Empire; Roman provincial identities; the art, archaeology and epigraphy of Roman Dacia

Reginald Gibbons: Greek poetry (including drama); ancient poetics; translation theory and practice

Ann C. Gunter: Art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean; artistic and cultural interaction between Greece and Near East; modern reception of ancient art

Richard Kraut: The moral and political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle; contemporary ethics and politics using tools provided by these ancient authors

Marianne Hopman: Archaic and classical Greek poetry; Greek myths and their Roman reception; literary theory (metaphors, narrative, intertextuality); Classical reception methodology

Sara Monoson: Greek political thought; Greek democracy; reception of Greek political thought in American public discourse; Classical Receptions methodology

Francesca Tataranni: Roman history, Latin language and literature, receptions of Roman culture in modern America

Taco Terpstra: Roman socioeconomic history, Roman archaeology and material culture, comparative history, papyrology

Robert Wallace: Archaic and classical Greek history and literature; ancient Greek law; ancient Greek music theory; Greek and Roman numismatics

Jennifer Weintritt: Greek and Latin Epic, Ancient Scholarship, Translation and Transformative Works, Textual Criticism, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Digital Humanities

William N. West: Early modern and pre-modern performance; dramatic, lyric, and encyclopedic traditions; Renaissance humanism