Baertschi, Annette M.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
abaertschi@brynmawr.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Renaissance epic, Neo-Latin pastoral and tragedy, History of Scholarship, Classical Reception
Current Work in Progress: “… ut ex multis et variis unum fiat, idque aliud et melius”: Imitative Transformation in Petrarch’s Africa
last update: 23 May 2014
Booth, Frederick J.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Languages Literatures and Cultures
Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey
frederick.booth@shu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Renaissance literature
Current Work in Progress:
Recent Neo-Latin Publications: Song of the Bison: Text and Translation of Nicolaus Hussiovianus’s “Carmen de statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis” (Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2019)
last update: 06 November 2020
Cooper, Alix
Associate Professor
History Department
SUNY-Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
alix.cooper@stonybrook.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Latin as a language for science and medicine in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in the use of Latin in natural history
Current Work in Progress: A history of the scientific family and household during the Scientific Revolution
last update: 29 June 2017
Professor
Department of Classics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
coulson.1@osu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Ovid; Classical reception
Current Work in Progress: The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography (co-edited with Robert G. Babcock) Ovid, Metamorphoses article for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum Translation of Petrus Brechorius, Ovidius moralizatus (for Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Codices Latini Ohienses (I): Latin Manuscripts in the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library of the Ohio State University,” Manuscripta 56, 2012: 157-226.
“The Editing of Medieval Commentary Texts: Problems and Perspectives,” Ars Edendi Lecture Series (III), edd. Eva Odleman and Denis M. Searby, Stockholm, 2014, 105-30.
The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I, Kalamazoo, MI, 2015.
“Myth and Allegory in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses,’ in Lire les mythes, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016,199-224.
last update: 14 May 2016
DiCesare, Mario A.
Professor Emeritus
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York
dicesare1@mindspring.com
Primary Field of Interest: Epic poetry, Vergilian commentary, especially Cristoforo Landino
Current Work in Progress: Cristoforo Landino
last update: 21 May 2014
Dugan, Kelly P.
Graduate student
Classics Department
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
dugan.139@osu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Classical reception, reception of Apuleius
last update: 13 May 2014
Ewald, Owen
C. May Marston Assistant Professor of Classics
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington
ewaldo@spu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Roman Historiography; Latin Poetry by Women; Latin Biblical Commentaries
Current Work in Progress: “Out of the Pietist Labyrinth: Susanna Sprögel’s Latin Verses” (to be presented at APA Annual Meeting, January 2015), Text and Translation of Susanna Sprögel’s Latin verses, Latin text of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentary on Hosea
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Imperial Roman Cities as Places of Memory in Augustine’s Confessions” (forthcoming in Urban Dreams & Realities volume from Brill).
last update: 12 May 2014
Fantazzi, Charles Emmanuel
Thomas Harriot Distinguished Professor Emeritus
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
fantazzic@ecu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Renaissance Latin Poetry, Erasmus, Vives
Current Work in Progress:
Vols. 17 and 18 of the Correspondence of Erasmus and vol. 75, Apology against the Spanish Monks, Collected Works of Erasmus, University of Toronto Press.
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“The Erasmus-Vives Correspondence” in Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters, ed. Stephen Ryle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 145-157.
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World ed. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2014).
“Juan Luis Vives.” In Karla Pollman et al. (eds.), The Oxord Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 3:1876-79.
last update: 15 May 2014
Fisher, Roger S.
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
York University
Toronto, Ontario
rfisher@yorku.ca
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin Prose, legal documents
Secondary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin translations of Greek texts
Current Work in Progress: Thomas Watson’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone; the trial of Thomas More
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Law Latin and English Law” in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, Macropaedia, eds. Philip Ford †, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden: Brill, 2014), Part IX, “Latin and Law,” Chapter 59, 791-806.
last update: 06 November 2020
Fritsen, Angela
Upper School Latin Teacher
The Episcopal School of Dallas
Dallas, Texas
amvfritsen@gmail.com
Primary Field of Interest: Renaissance humanism; Classical reception; antiquarianism
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Antiquarian Voices. The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid’s Fasti. Ohio State University Press, 2015.
“The Renaissance Afterlife of Heroides 15: Two Humanist Responses to Sappho (Commendatio Marci Siculae poetae and Epistula Phaonis ad Sappho).” Manuscripta 49.1 (2005): 41-58.
“Readership and Patronage: The Manuscript History of Ludovico Lazzarelli’s Fasti christianae religionis.” R. Babcock and L. Patterson, editors, Old Books, New Learning: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Books at Yale (New Haven, CT: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2001): 93-104.
“Testing Auctoritas: The Travels of Paolo Marsi, 1468-69.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6.3 (2000): 356-382.
last update: 19 December 2022
Gaisser, Julia Haig
Professor Emeritus of Latin, Research Professor in the Humanities
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
jgaisser@brynmawr.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Renaissance Humanism; History of Scholarship; and Neo-Latin Poetry
Current Work in Progress:
An edition and translation of Pontano’s dialogues Actius, Asinus, and Aegidius for the I Tatti Renaissance Library
The article on Tibullus for Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Pontano’s Dialogues vol. 1 (Charon and Antonius). I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2012
“From Giovanni Pontano to Pierio Valeriano: Five Renaissance Commentators on Latin Erotic Poetry.” Forthcoming in Commentaries, Christina Kraus, Christopher Stray, and Sander Goldberg, eds. Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Succession and Inheritance in Pontano’s Antonius.” Forthcoming in Studi di erudizione e di filologia italiana. (2014) 87-120.
last update: 12 May 2014
Gallucci, John
Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages
Colgate University
Hamilton, New York
jgallucci@colgate.edu
Primary Field of Interest:
French literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Neo-Latin literature of the Renaissance and later centuries, especially those Neo-Latin writings pertaining to the “New World”
Current Work in Progress: contributed, with Jean-François Cottier and Haijo Westra, to the chapter on Neo-Latin literature in North America, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin Literature
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Latin Terms and Periphrases for Native Americans in the Jesuit Relations‘ appeared in Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, edd. Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies/BREPOLS, 2010: pp. 259-252. This article was translated into French and appeared in the review Tangence, été 2012, numéro 99, under the title ‘Décrire les ‘Sauvages’: réflexion sur les manières de désigner les autochtones dans le latin des Relations‘, pp. 19-34.
last update: 21 May 2014
George, Edward V.
Emeritus Professor
Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures,
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
ed.george@suddenlink.net
Primary Field of Interest: Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540); Northern Renaissance Rhetoric; Renaissance reception of ancient sources for the late Roman Republic.
Current Work in Progress: Entries on De veritate fidei Christianae, Book Four, and De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca by Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540), in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, to be published by E.J. Brill, Leiden.
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Juan Luis Vives, Declamationes Sullanae: Part Two. Edited and Translated with Introduction and Notes by Edward V. George. Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill. 2012.
“Captive Greeks and Deluded Europeans: Notes on Juan Luis Vives’s De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca (1529).” eHumanista 26 (2014). Pp. 508-529.
“Fragments of Historical Fiction in Juan Luis Vives.” Studia Philologica Valentina 14 (2012). Pp. 269-85.
last update: 27 May 2014
Jean, Michael
Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
jean.18@osu.edu (http://classics.osu.edu/people/jean.18)
Primary Field of Interest: Ovid’s Fasti in the Renaissance, literary representations of Roman topography
Current Work in Progress:
Dissertation: “Teaching Ovid’s Fasti: a critical edition and study of the glosses of Pomponio Leto”
last update: 12 May 2014
Lewis, Anne-Marie
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
York University
Toronto, Ontario
amlewis@yorku.ca
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin Poetry and Prose in Sixteenth Century England and France
Current Work in Progress: Nicholas Allen’s Phaenomena
Neo-Latin Publications: “A Catalogue of Learned Women in the Latin Schoolroom Letters of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Vindobonensis, 2018, 423-32.
last update: 5 June 2018
Little, William
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Greek and Latin
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
little.447@osu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Post-classical Latin
last update: 21 May 2014
Lokaj, Rodney John
Università Kore di Enna
Enna, Sicily
rodneylokaj@gmail.com
Primary Field of Interest: Latin and Italian literature in Italy in the later medieval and early modern ages
Current Work in Progress: The Franciscan sources behind Dante’s Paradiso III
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Petrarch’s Ascent of Mount Ventoux. The Familiaris IV, 1 Commented edition with Latin text, English translation and introduction by Rodney Lokaj, Edizioni dell’Ateneo, Scriptores Latini, Roma-Pisa 2006.
Two Renaissance Friends: Baldassarre Castiglione, Domizio Falcone and Their Neo-Latin Poetry, Critical edition with Introduction, Commentary and English Translation by Rodney Lokaj, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona 2014.
“Falco Mantuanus de pictura,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae 20 (2013) 577-587.
last update: 18 January 2016
Mahoney, Anne
Lecturer, Classics
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
anne.mahoney@tufts.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Giovanni Pascoli; Post-Renaissance Latin generally; Classical Tradition
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Reading Caesar with Petrarch: A Study in Style,” Classical Outlook 89.3 (2012), 65-76.
“Poetics on the Menu: Pascoli’s Cena in Caudiano Nervae and Horace’s Satire 1.5,” New England Classical Journal 39.3 (2012), 167-181.
“The Garland of Erasmus: The Adages As Anthology,” New England Classical Journal 37.3 (2010), 193-206.
last update: 15 May 2014
Manning, Laura
Graduate Student
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
lamanning@uky.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Latin pedagogy, reception of Cicero, Classical and Neo-Latin oratory
Secondary Field of Interest: History of liberal arts and humanities (especially in antiquity and early modern periods)
last update: 29 October 2015
Mansfield, Justin
Independent Scholar
Chicago, Illinois
iustinus@gmail.com
Primary Field of Interest: Vocabulary, Judaism, World Exploration (Ethnography, Biology)
last update: 24 December 2019
Minkova, Milena
Professor of Classics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
mmink2@uky.edu
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/user/787
Primary Field of Interest: Latin Literature in its continuity; 12th century Renaissance; Latin Composition; Latin Pedagogy and Active Latin
Current Work in Progress: Latin Expression Throughout the Centuries and Across the World: the Classical Latinity of Giovanni Pietro Maffei and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. Contribution for a book on Neo-Latin prose style, word usage, and history of ideas
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Florilegium recentioris Latinitatis, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2018 (=Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, XLIII).
“Conversational Latin: 1650 to Present,” Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, Macropaedia, ed. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi (Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2014), 83-86
“Neo-Latin Orthography,” Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, Micropaedia, ed. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi (Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2014), 1122-1124.
last update: 06 November 2020
Mistretta, Marco Romani
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Classics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
romanimistretta@fas.harvard.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin humanism in the Italian Quattrocento
Secondary Field of Interest: Scientific uses of Latin in early Modern Europe
Current Work in Progress: Poliziano and the literary canon
last update: 12 May 2014
last update: 25 February 2019
Owens, Patrick M.
NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor of Classics
Colgate University
Hamilton, New York
patrickm.owens@gmail.com
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin Epic, Lucretian reception, Latin Lexicography, History of Classical Pedagogy
Current Work in Progress: Invention and Imitation in the Anti-Lucretius
Recent Neo-Latin Publications: Neo-Latin Lexicon Project
https://neolatinlexicon.org/
Neo-Latin Editorship: Neo-Latin News
last update: 31 August 2023
Riley, Mark
Professor Emeritus of Classics
California State University Sacramento
Sacramento, California
mtriley@saclink.csus.edu
Primary Field of Interest: John Barclay, Neo-Latin fiction
Current Work in Progress: Barclay’s Poemata (1612), edition and translation
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
John Barclay, Icon animorum, Leuven Univ. Press, 2013 (text and translation).
b. Riley’s Greek Reader, Sophron, 2013 (available on Amazon; an intermediate Greek textbook)
c. Various on-line publications at http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/library.html including James Hume and selections from Samuel Gott.
The Neo-Latin Reader: Selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud, Sophron Editor, 2016.
last update: 14 May 2016
Ronnick, Michele Valerie
Professor
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
aa3276@wayne.edu
Primary Field of Interest: John Milton’s Latin Prose; Classical Reception
Secondary Field of Interest: North American Neo-Latin writers
Exhibitions:
“Black Classicists: From Ostracism to Scholarship” began touring the UK in May 2022. She worked with the James Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University on this project.
“Black Classicists: A Mural Mosaic, at the Center for Hellenic Studies, at Harvard University, Washington, D.C. This installation is now permanent on the Center’s website: https://chs.harvard.edu/permanent-collection/black-classicists/.
last update: 21 June 2022
Schaffenrath, Florian
Associate Professor
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
Innsbruck, Austria
florianschaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin epic poetry
Current Work in Progress: Survey of Neo-Latin epic poems of the Habsburg empire
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Tyrollis Latina. Geschichte der lateinische Literature in Tirol (with Martin Korenjak, Lav Subaric, and Karlheinz Töchterle), Vienna, 2012.
“Das Gründungsepos der Römerstadt Aguntum von Joseph Resch,” 2012, 41 Daphnis 263-74.
“Aeneas Habspurgus vor dem Hintergrund der zeitgenösschischen Romantheorie,” in Stefan Tilg and Isabella Walser, eds., Der neulateinische Roman as Medium seiner Zeit: The Neo-Latin Novel in its Time, Tübingen, 2013, 21 NeoLatina 145-60.
“Narrative Poetry,” in Sarah Knight and Stefan Tilg, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin, Oxford 2015, 57–72.
“Anti-mirrors of Princes in Neo-Latin Habsburg Novels,” in Renaessanceforum 10, 2016, 219-45.
last update: 14 May 2016
Tunberg, Jennifer Morrish
Associate Professor Department of Modern and Classical Languages
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
jtunberg@yahoo.com
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin Fiction, especially novels.
Current Work in Progress: A study of literary aspects of John Barclay’s Neo-Latin novel Argenis (Paris, 1621).
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
“Neo-Latin Fiction” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Neo-Latin World, Macropaedia, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2014), Part IV, Neo-Latin Literature, Chpt. 25, pp. 311-322.
“An Old Wife and the Tale that She Tells in Barclay’s Argenis,” in Der neulateinische Roman als Medium seiner Zeit/The Neo-Latin Novel in its Time, eds. Stefan Tilg and Isabella Walser (Tubingen: Narr Verlag, 2013), pp. 73-81.
“Natural Law, Apuleius, and Topoi of Fiction in Psyche Cretica (Regensburg, 1685), a Neo-Latin Novel by Johannes Ludovicus Praschius,” Humanistica Lovaniensia 57 (2008), 263-299.
last update: 12 May 2014
Tunberg, Terence O.
Professor
Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
terence.tunberg@gmail.com
Primary Field of Interest: Neo-Latin prose style and language
Secondary Field of Interest: Rhetoric
Current Work in Progress: (Book) Studies in 16th and 17th Century Latin Prose: Style, Structure, Word-Choice, and Imitation
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
De rationibus quibus homines docti artem Latine colloquendi et ex tempore dicendi saeculis XVI et XVII coluerunt. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 31 (Leuven, 2012).
“Neo-Latin Prose Style from Petrarch to c. 1650” in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2014), Part I, Language and Education, Chpt. 6, pp. 75-86.
“Conversational Latin to 1650,” Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, (eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2014), Part I, Language and Education, Chpt. 13, pp. 155-60.
last update: 13 May 2014
Ulery, Robert W.
Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
ulery@wfu.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Medieval and Renaissance readers of Sallust and Tacitus; Pietro Bembo
Secondary Field of Interest: Edmund Bolton’s critique of Tacitus ca. 1630; the annotation of an illustrated fifteenth century ms of Sallust connected to Jean LeBegue
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Pietro Bembo, Historia Veneta, 3 vols., ed. and trans., I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press, 2007-09.
last update: 12 May 2014
Williams, Rose
Instructor Emerita of Latin and Multi-Cultural studies
www.roserwilliams.com
rwill627@suddenlink.net
Primary Field of Interest: Latin Literature, especially that of the New World.
Secondary field of Interest: History and Culture of the Classical and New World and the Impact of the Europeans upon the New World.
Current Work in Progress:
Recent Neo-Latin Publications:
Latin in the Western World
Independently Published, May 2023
“Neo-Latin Classical Tradition: Latin and its Influence in the New World,” AANLS Newsletter, Spring 2010.
“Grammar Through Mythology” Prima, Spring 2012.
“Latin for the Very Young,” The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, July 2012.
Latin of New Spain, Bolchazy-Carducci, 2015.
Professional Presentation/Workshops:
“Roman Influence in the New World”Texas Classical Association Annual Conference, Nov. 6, 2010.
“Latin and Roman Ideals in the Hispanic New World.” TFLA/SWCOLT April 2011.
“Riches of Neo-Latin — Using Specific NeoLatin Texts: Landivar’s epic Rusticatio Mexicana and Acosta’s De Natura Orbis Novi,” ACL June 2011.
“Latin and Roman Ideals in the Hispanic New World.” TFLA/SWCOLT April 2011.
“Taming Caesar” ACL June 2012.
“Caesar the Unexpected” ACL June 2014.
“New Spain or New Rome?” ACL June 2015.
last update: 14 May 2016
Wimperis, Tedd A.
Ph.D. Candidate
Classics Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
wimperis@email.unc.edu
Primary Field of Interest: Classical reception, Neo-Latin poetry
Secondary Field of Interest: Genre, political propaganda in Neo-Latin poetry
last update: 5 June 2014