Faculty
An Overview
The Department of Classics consists of approximately 20 teaching-and-research, concurrent, professional, and emeritus faculty whose interests range from linguistics to ancient Mediterranean civilization to contemporary issues confronting the Middle East. Here are some recent publications by members of our Classics and Middle Eastern Studies faculty:
(For a full list of our faculty, look to the right)
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Li Guo, The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam: shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo. Brill, 2012.
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W. Martin Bloomer, The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education. University of California Press, 2011.
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Keith R. Bradley,editor, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Joseph P. Amar, The Syriac Vita Tradition of Ephrem the Syrian. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vols. 629 and 630; Lovanii, in Aedibus Peeters, 2011.
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Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru. Princeton, 2007
Professor MacCormack’s book won both the 2007 John E. Fagg Prize and the 2007 James A. Rawley Prize in History
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Catherine Schlegel, Hesiod: The Works and Days and Theogony: A Verse Translation and Commentary, co-authored with Henry Weinfield. University of Michigan Press, 2006
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Isabelle Torrance, Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes. London: Duckworth, 2007
Resources for Faculty
University Resources
An Ode to the Classics Faculty
by Mel Triay
Sing for me, O Muse, of those sagacious men and women
Who, having set foot upon the broad plains of South Bend
Ended their circuitous wanderings in the quest for higher education.
Many trials did they endure, and many bloody battles,
Many dear companions fell beside them in the quest for a Ph.D.
But, with trials such as these drawn to a timely end,
And with scars set deep in body and mind,
They have raised anew a citadel to aegis-bearing Zeus
Fortified by spear and sword, instruments of sullen Ares,
And a name derived from God himself- the Notre Dame Classics Department!
Disclose to me, fair goddess, the daring feats of their leaders,
How wily Bradley wields his tomes of power and commands his subjects,
How fleet-footed Krostenko with potent speech bewitches the masses with ancient yore,
How bronze-clad Mazurek has challenged the exalted ones,
Pursuing diligently the arts of war.
At long last, speak of those brave souls who, steadfast in mind,
Endeavor to follow the heavy charges of their leaders.
With minds tempered by hardship and toil do they wander the hallowed halls of Decio,
Ever struggling for a name that might sail the high-rising ether.
Sing, Muse, and may your heavenly chant echo across the generations….
Faculty
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Daniel J. Sheerin
Professor Emeritus
Sheerin conducts research primarily in patristic and liturgical texts, medieval Latin, and texts by Erasmus and other Reformation figures. Read More
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Robin Rhodes
Associate Professor, Departments of Classics and Art, Art History, and Design
Robin Rhodes is an archaeologist and historian of classical art and architecture and has recently been awarded a multi-year NEH Collaborative Research Grant for his work as Principal Investigator of the Greek Stone Architecture at the Corinth Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Read More
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Blake Leyerle
The John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Theology
Blake Leyerle's scholarly specialization lies in the social and cultural history of early Christianity. Read More
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Amaya Martin
Assistant Teaching Professor
Amaya Martin’s academic interests include linguistic analysis of Arabic cultural and literary texts. Read More
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Ghada Bualuan
Assistant Teaching Professor
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics and Program of Arabic Languages and Literature, Professor Bualuan is interested in Read More
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Elizabeth Mazurek
Associate Professor
Mazurek’s interests include Latin literature, Roman epigraphy, Roman history, and women and gender in classical antiquity. Read More
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Joseph P. Amar
Professor
Dr Joseph P. Amar is a linguist trained in ancient and modern Semitic languages and in the histories, religions, and cultures of the Middle East. He specializes in Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic literary culture and in early interactions between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Read More
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Keith R. Bradley
Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics
Professor Bradley is an ancient historian who specializes in the social and cultural history of Rome. He has particular interests in the history of slavery, the history of the family, and the history of religion in classical antiquity. Read More
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Hildegund Müller
Associate Professor
Hildegund Müller is a specialist of late antique Latin literature, both poetry and prose, especially the Latin Church Fathers. Her favorite classical authors are Cicero and Horace. Read More
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Li Guo
Associate Professor
Guo’s areas of interest are Arabic language and literature, medieval Arabic historiography and popular culture. Read More
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David Hernandez
Assistant Professor
David Hernandez is an archaeologist of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Having directed large-scale field projects at Butrint and Amantia, he has extensive knowledge of excavation methods and complex urban stratigraphy. Read More
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David Ladouceur
Associate Professor
Ladouceur is a specialist in Hellenistic Greek and Judaism, Early Christian Latin, ancient medicine. Read More
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Sabine MacCormack
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters
Professor MacCormack is a historian of the Roman empire, late antiquity and the early modern Spanish world, with a special interest in the peoples and cultures of the Andes. Read More
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W. Martin Bloomer
Associate Professor
Bloomer’s chief areas of research lie in Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and ancient education. Read More
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Christopher A. Baron
Assistant Professor
Professor Baron’s interests include Greek and Roman historiography, the history of the Hellenistic period, Greek epigraphy, and the ethnic identity in the ancient world. Read More
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Tadeusz Mazurek
Associate Professional Specialist
Professor Mazurek researches the literature and cultural history of Republican Rome, with a particular interest in Roman law, religion and self-rule. Read More
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Catherine Schlegel
Associate Professor
Professor Schlegel’s research interests include Latin and Greek poetry and issues involving violence as a tool for identity formation. Read More
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Isabelle Torrance
Assistant Professor
Professor Torrance specializes in archaic and classical Greek literature and culture, especially Greek tragedy and religion. Read More
