The ICCS faculty is chosen from persons teaching classics, history, and art history in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The usual faculty complement is a Professor-in-Charge, two Associate or Assistant Professors, and an advanced graduate student as Instructor. In addition, other persons are hired in Italy to teach Renaissance and Baroque Art History and Elementary Italian. Generally, faculty are chosen for an entire academic year.
The Intercollegiate Center
for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the following faculty appointments:
2007-2008
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Walter Englert, Professor-in-Charge: Walter Englert is the Hoskins Professor of Classical Studies at Reed College in Portland, OR, where he has taught since 1981. He received his BA at St. Mary's College of California, his MA at UC Santa Barbara, and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and was an associate professor at the Centro in 1992-1993. He has published a book and articles on various aspects of Hellenistic Philosophy (Epicureanism and Stoicism), a Bryn Mawr commentary on Cicero's Pro Caelio, and a translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Focus 2003). His current research projects focus on Socrates, Epicurus, and the ways in which Roman authors (particularly Cicero) adapted aspects of Greek philosophy to a new Roman context.
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Luke Roman: Luke Roman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at University of Victoria, British Columbia,where he has taught since 2000. He studied at the Centro himself as an undergraduate. Since then he has received his BA at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at Stanford University. His research focuses on Roman poetry in the first-person genres, and he is currently revising a book manuscript on "Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome."
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Liz Colantoni: Elizabeth Colantoni was the 2006-07 Charles Beebe Martin Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. She taught previously at University of Michigan and Bowdoin College. She received her BA from UNC Chapel Hill, MA's in Latin and Classical Art and Archeology from University of Michigan, an MA in Anthropology from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archeology from University of Michigan. Her primary field of specialization is Roman archeology, and she also has a strong interest in Roman religion and history.
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Alex Meyer, Graduate Instructor: Alex Meyer received his B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania where he studied 20th Century Literature and Latin and an M.A. in Classical Philology from Tufts University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University with a concentration in Ancient History. Since 2002, he has served as Excavation Supervisor at Vindolanda Roman Fort near Hadrian's Wall in England. His particular interests are Latin Epigraphy and Roman Provincial Studies and is currently conducting research into the cultural development of Roman Spain.
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2008-2009
Nigel Pollard, Professor-in-Charge
In addition to the annual appointments of faculty from across the U.S. and Canada, ICCS also has two faculty members based in Rome. They are listed below.
ROME-BASED FACULTY
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Barbara Castaldo, Italian: Barbara Castaldo earned her Laurea in Modern Literature at University La Sapienza of Rome, her M.A. at Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Italian Literature at New York University. She currently teaches courses of Italian language at ICCS and University of California in Rome, where she has worked since 2005. She taught previously courses on 20 th Century Italian Novel and Modern Theatre at New York University in New York and Florence. She has published articles on various contemporary Italian writers and she is currently rewriting her dissertation on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her research focuses on law and literature scholarship, travel writing and postmodernism. |
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Paul Tegmeyer, Art History: Paul Tegmeyer began studying art history as an undergraduate at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he was raised. After moving to Italy, actually l'Aquila, outside Rome, in 1983, he began graduate school at Temple University in Rome, and then Philadelphia. He later entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. His area of specialization is the Italian Renaissance.
He began teaching the Ren. to Baroque Rome course at ICCS from 1990-92 and again from 1997 on. He also been teaching at John Cabot University in Rome since 1991. Here he has had the opportunity to expand his repertoire beyond the Italian Renaissance, teaching courses on Ancient and Medieval Rome, Baroque art, as well as monographic courses on Renaissance Rome; Raphael; Michelangelo; Bernini; et al. Since 1997 he has also conducted the Rome Seminar for the Smithsonian Institute.
His research focuses primarily on various aspects of Roman Renaissance art (Raphael, Pollaiuolo, Michelangelo, et al.). He is also now in the early stages of preparing with other colleagues, a “Guide to Renaissance Rome”. |
Last updated: 19 November 2007 |
