Notes on Contributors
William M. Barton
is Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria. William studied Classics in Britain and Canada before beginning his doctoral work in Early Modern Latin literature at Kingâs College, London. His research has focused primarily on engagements with the natural environment and landscape in Latin literature. He has worked in particular on attitudes towards the mountain in early modern Latin literature, the representation of nature in late antique poetry, and the natural world in early writing on la Nouvelle-France. Williamâs approach to this material is characterized by an interest in the ways in which descriptions of the natural world play a role in the creation of meaning within literary texts.
Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha
is a scholar at Kingâs College, London, researching uses of classical antiquity in the popular oral poetries of Northeast Brazil. Connieâs broader interests in how stories travel, adapt, and blend lead her to work with poets and artists across Europe and Latin America.
Michael Brumbaugh
is an Associate Professor in Classical Studies and an Affiliate in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His research focuses on political thought in ancient Greek literature as well as ways that literary culture has been leveraged for political ends from antiquity through to the present day. He is currently preparing the first English translation and edition of the Neo-Latin treatise De administratione Guaranica comparate ad rempublicam Platonis commentarius (1793) [âA Commentary on the Guaranà Way of Life Compared with Platoâs Republicâ] by José Manuel Peramás as well as a monograph, Plato in Paraguay, on that work.
Artur Costrino
is a lecturer in Classics and Early Modern literature at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil. He has completed a critical edition of Alcuinâs Disputatio de Rhetorica et Virtutibus and remains interested in the intersection between rhetoric, philosophy, and poetics and in the transmission, reception, and reinterpretation of knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. He is currently researching the poetic works, written in Latin, of the Jesuit priest José de Anchieta.
Matthew Duquès
received his PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at Vanderbilt, North Dakota State University, and the University of North Alabama, where he received tenure in 2019. His recent work can be found in Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity (Routledge, 2018), Gendered Ecologies (Clemson, 2020), Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (Bucknell, 2021), and in such journals as Early American Literature, MELUS, Common-Place, and Public Books. He is currently working on a novel about antebellum U.S. Hellenism.
Maya Feile Tomes
has been oscillating across the Ibero-American~classical intersection for over a decade now. She is currently Teaching Associate in Colonial Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, where she is also Director of Studies in Spanish and Portuguese at Emmanuel College. Prior to this she was Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages and Classics at Christâs College, and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College. Her graduate and undergraduate studies were all in Classics at Kingâs College. Current projects include a translation of texts from the so-called âControversy of the Indiesâ, co-edited with Luke Glanville and contributor to this volume, David Lupher.
John T. Gilmore
is a Reader in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively in the fields of British and Caribbean literature in the long eighteenth century, Neo-Latin literature, and translation studies. Recent publications include a verse translation (from the Latin) of Guillaume Massieu, Coffee: A Poem (Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2019). He is the author of the volume on Satire in the New Critical Idiom series (London and New York: Routledge, 2018).
Adam J. Goldwyn
is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University, a land grant institution on the traditional lands of the Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda) and Anishinaabe Peoples in addition to the many diverse Indigenous Peoples still connected to those lands. He is the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (2018), and, in the field of classical reception, co-editor (with James Nikopoulos) of Brillâs Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde (2017), editor of The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World (2015), and co-translator (with Dimitra Kokkini) of the twelfth-century Byzantine scholar John Tzetzesâs Allegories of the Iliad (2015) and Allegories of the Odyssey (2019).
Andrew Laird
is John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities at Brown University, Rhode Island. His self-authored and collaborative publications include: Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power (Oxford: OUP, 1999), A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleiusâ Metamorphoses (Oxford: OUP, 2001), Ancient Literary Criticism (Oxford: OUP, 2006), The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael LandÃvar and the Rusticatio Mexicana (London: Duckworth, 2006), Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300â1600 (London: Duckworth, 2009), Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America (Chichester: Wiley/SLAS, 2018), and Aztec Latin (New York: OUP, forthcoming).
David A. Lupher
is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America (University of Michigan Press, 2003) and Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims: Classical Receptions in Early New England (Brill, 2017). He is the translator of Alberico Gentiliâs 1599 De Armis Romanis (The Wars of the Romans, edited by Benjamin Straumann and Benedict Kingsbury, Oxford University Press, 2011) and is currently working with Luke Glanville and Maya Feile Tomes on a volume of translations of writings by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Jean-Nicolas Mailloux
is a PhD student at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle â Paris 3, France, and a member of EA 174 âFormes et Idées de la Renaissance aux Lumièresâ research unit. His research interests are Early Modern French and Neo-Latin literature.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Programs in Latino Studies and Latin American Studies and the University Center for Human Values. His research and teaching interests include the religious history of the Roman Republic and Empire; Mediterranean and global histories of slavery and citizenship; classical reception in the U.S. and the Hispanophone Caribbean; critical race studies and the history of classical scholarship. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boyâs Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin, 2015) and Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (Princeton, 2020); he has also co-edited Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge, 2017).
Ivy Schweitzer
is Professor of English and Creative Writing, and past chair of Womenâs, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Dartmouth College. Her fields are early American literature, American poetry, womenâs literature, gender and cultural studies, and digital humanities. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England and Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature, co-editor of The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology and A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, and editor of The Occom Circle, a digital edition of works by and about Samson Occom, an eighteenth century Mohegan Indian writer and activist.
Nicole A. Spigner
is an Assistant Professor in African American Studies and English at Northwestern University. She was a 2018â19 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and completed her PhD at Vanderbilt University. Her manuscript in development, tentatively entitled Niobe Repeating: Black New Women and Ovidian Transformation, examines feminine transformation in the works of Black New Women classicists who rewrote stories from Ovidâs Metamorphoses and employed Ovidian allusions, themes, and forms. She serves on the boards of Issues in Critical Investigation and the A-Line Journal. Her work can also be found in the A-Line Journal, Public Books, and The Feminist Wire.
Joanne van der Woude
received her PhD in English from the University of Virginia before proceeding to a Mellon fellowship in the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities and a tenure-track position in Harvardâs English Department and Program in History and Literature. After happily returning home to the Netherlands, she won an â¬800,000 federal grant for research into comparative colonial literatures. Upon finishing that grant, she recently started working as a museum and library director at De Domijnen in Sittard, Netherlands.
Zachary Yuzwa
is Assistant Professor of History at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He received his PhD in 2014 from Cornell University. His primary research interest is the Latin literature of late antiquity, and his work regularly addresses the literary interface between classical Latin and late ancient Christian hagiography. But living and working on the Canadian prairies has compelled him to think more carefully about the relationship between classics and colonization in what we now call the Americas. He is the principal investigator of a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that aims to explore the use of ancient literature and history in the writings of Jesuit missionaries in New France.