Study Abroad: ICCS in Sicily: Faculty

FACULTY

2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR

Nigel Nicholson, Professor-in-Charge: Nigel Nicholson is the Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he has taught since 1995. He received his BA from Oxford University in 1990 and his PhD from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1994. From 1994 to 1995 he taught at Wellesley College, MA. He is the author of "Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece," published by Cambridge University Press in 2005, as well as various articles on Pindar and other subjects in Arethusa, Classical Journal, Classical World, Classical Philology and other journals. At present he is working on two projects, one comparing the praise poetry of
Pindar and Ted Hughes, and one examining the use and meaning of the anecdotes told about archaic athletes. A committed teacher, he was named Oregon Professor of the Year in 2004 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Matthew Panciera, Associate Professor: Matthew Panciera received his BA from the University of Toronto in 1989 and his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 2001. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics at Gustavus Adolphus College and before
coming to Gustavus he taught at Hamilton College, the College of Charleston, and ICCS-Rome. His scholarly interests include Roman literature and history broadly defined (Martial, Juvenal, Livy, Plautus, Pompeian graffiti) and he has begun work on a book for Cambridge University Press that concerns Roman daily life.