Samuel Reich

Samuel Reich graduated with a B.A. in Classical Languages (summa cum laude with departmental honors) from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 2022, studying Ancient Greek, Latin, and Biblical Hebrew. While at Wheaton, he received the C. Hassell Bullock Award for Excellence in Hebrew and the Gerald F. and Jane E. Hawthorne Endowed Scholarship in Greek Studies, in addition to graduating as a member of Eta Beta Rho (National Honor Society of Students of Hebrew Language and Culture) and the Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society. In his honors thesis, he analyzed how Lucian of Samosata satirized the notion of theodicy in his comic dialogues. He has tutored a significant amount of Ancient Greek, in addition to some Latin and Biblical Hebrew, and is extremely excited at the prospect of teaching introductory language classes both at Notre Dame and beyond. Aside from classical literature, he has read all of the Greek New Testament and much of the Hebrew Bible, in addition to sizeable portions of the Vulgate, the Septuagint, second temple Jewish literature, the Apostolic Fathers, and Phoenician inscriptions—all in the original languages. His research interests broadly include Greek literature (particularly of the Hellenistic and Roman eras), satire, ancient writers’ creative literary reflection on topics in philosophy and religion, and the intersection of the classical world with the ancient Near East.