Department of Classics
428 Faculty Memorial Hall (FMH)
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx NY 10458-5154
TEL 718-817-3130
FAX 718-817-0875
Department Secretary
Ms. Eleanora Patane
428 FMH
718-817-3130
Faculty
John R. Clark
Ph.D., Cornell
Associate Professor
428B FMH
718-817-3135
email: clark@fordham.edu
Interests: Greco-Roman comedy, Latin palaeography
John R. Clark, with a dissertation and publications on Roman comedy, a book on the Renaissance Latin Platonist Marsilio Ficino, a number of articles on medieval Latin literature, and an abiding interest in manuscript studies, keeps himself busy at Fordham teaching Latin (classical, Christian, and medieval) at all levels, classical drama in translation, and graduate courses in Roman comedy and satire, medieval Latin surveys and seminars, and Latin palaeography. During the summers, he offers a course on ecclesiastical Latin and occasional tutorials. Having just completed an article for Traditio on a recently discovered thirteenth-century text on alchemy and religion, he is looking forward to resuming his work on the interlocking themes of trickery and chance in Roman comedy, to be followed by the editing of a medieval Latin reader especially designed for a classics audience.
Harry B. Evans
Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Professor Emeritus
email: hevans@fordham.edu
Interests: Roman topography, Latin literature
Harry B. Evans is primarily interested in Roman topography: he has written two books and co-edited a third on topographical topics, and two of the five doctoral dissertations he directed during his 25 years at Fordham focused on Roman topography. He has been a Rome Prize Fellow and Resident in Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome and also taught three years at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, twice as professor-in-charge. He served as secretary-treasurer of the American Philological Association for five years and was also elected APA Vice President for Program for a four-year term. In retirement he is completing a book on the topographical research of the seventeenth-century polymath Athanasius Kircher, S.J.
J. Andrew Foster
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Assistant Professor
915E Lowenstein Building
113 West 60th Street
New York NY 10023
212-636-6355
mail: foster@fordham.edu
Interests: Greek literature
J. Andrew Foster is currently completing a book on the Greek poet Theocritus and has written articles and reviews on a range of topics concerning his poetry, that of his near-contemporary Apollonius of Rhodes, as well as on the literary life of bees in antiquity. A participant in the Religious Studies Program, he teaches a wide array of classes in Greek literature and classical civilization, ranging from Homer to the Gospel of John and is more than happy to design courses and tutorials to permit aspiring classicists to tailor a program of study suited to their particular needs.
Matthew McGowan
Ph.D., New York University
Assistant Professor
428D FMH
718-817-3031
mail: mamcgowan@fordham.edu
Interests: Latin literature, Greek and Roman religion, classical tradition
Matthew McGowan is interested in Roman poetry, ancient scholarship, and the active use of the Latin language in both writing and speaking. He has published articles on Vergil, Ovid, Renaissance Latin, and Latin pedagogy and has recently completed a book on Ovid's exile poetry. In 2007-2008 he has lectured on Ovid, Tibullus, Seneca, and exile in Latin literature and has begun work on a concise introduction to Latin lexicography. He teaches a wide range of courses, from classical myth to Latin prose composition, and has instituted the mensa Latina (spoken Latin table) at the Rose Hill campus. In addition, Prof. McGowan has organized Fordham's Latin Day for local area high schools and offered tours of the New York Botanical Garden and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sarah Peirce
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Associate Professor
428C FMH
718-817-3140
email: peirce@fordham.edu
Interests: Greek religion, drama, history, classical archaeology
Sarah Peirce is a classical archaeologist with special interests in Greek vase-painting iconography, Greek religion, and Greek social history. She has a book forthcoming on the "Lenaia Vases" and Bacchic cult and has published reviews and articles on Greek art and religion. Her next project is on the "symposion of the blessed" in Greek vase-painting and in the religion of the afterlife. She teaches courses in Greek language, literature, history, and religion and tutorials in Greek vase-painting. She also has an interest in the ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean; she teaches a course on Near Eastern history and the ancient history segment of the freshman Honors Program sequence on the ancient world. She has long-standing ties to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and has served as chair of its Committee on Admissions and as co-director of its summer session.
Robert J. Penella, Chairman
Ph.D., Harvard
Professor
428A FMH
718-817-3137
email: rpenella@fordham.edu
Interests: Imperial Greek prose, Late Antiquity, Roman historiography
Robert J. Penella has had a long-standing interest in Roman history and historiography, in which areas he does most of his teaching. His main research interest, however, is the imperial Greek rhetorical and oratorical tradition from Dio Chrysostom to the School of Gaza, and he regards late antiquity as his major scholarly home. Past holder of NEH and Guggenheim fellowships, he is the author of four books, most recently The Private Orations of Themistius (Berkeley 2000) and Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius (Berkeley, 2007). He is contributing editor of Choricius of Gaza, Preliminary Talks and Declamations: A Collaborative Translation, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and is currently working on a study tentatively titled The Eloquent on Eloquence: Issues and Motifs in Imperial Greek Oratory and on a translation of Libanius's Trojan declamations (3-5). He is a member of the editorial board of the New England Classical Journal.
George W. Shea
Ph.D., Columbia
Professor
924E Lowenstein Building
Fordham-Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street
New York NY 10023
212-636-6243
email: gshea@fordham.edu
Interests: late antiquity, Latin literature
George W. Shea, associate chair for Lincoln Center, teaches courses in Latin language and literature as well as classics in translation. He has published three books on Latin poetry in addition to articles and reviews in both classics and other areas of general scholarly interest. He was for fifteen years Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center. He has a special interest in international education and has taught and lectured in Japan, Australia, and Italy, where for five years he directed Fordham's summer study program in Orvieto.
(last revised Feb. 2008)
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