Classics
Classics Courses for Fall 2013
Alumnus Appointed to UMass Faculty
Classics M.A. program alumnus Joseph Tipton recently defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh. The title of his dissertation is: "An Aristocracy of Virtue: The Protagorean Background to the Periclean Funeral Speech in Thucydides." Joseph has received an appointment as a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Alumnus Wins Austrian Fellowship
Jonathan Meyer, a recent graduate of the M.A. program in Classics and Institute for Latin Studies, has received a fellowship from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Austria. During the academic year 2013/14, Jonathan will spend six months in Innsbruck, Austria to research 18th-century Neo-Latin novels related to the Habsburg Empire. We are delighted to celebrate both Jonathan's achievement and this new connection between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and our own here at the University of Kentucky.
About Classics at the University of Kentucky
The Division of Classics offers an undergraduate major and minor in both the B.A. and B.S. degrees. We also contribute a significant component to the minor in Folklore and Mythology sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures. On the graduate level, the Division offers an M.A. in Classics and an M.A. in Teaching Latin, through the Department’s Master of Arts in Teaching World Languages Program (MATWL). The Division is also home to the UK Institute for Latin Studies which offers a unique graduate level program featuring the use of active speaking to gain a superior command of Latin and a broad sweep through the entire tradition of Latin from antiquity to the present day.
Officers of the Division are:
- Division Director - James A. Francis (j.francis@uky.edu)
- Director of Undergraduate Studies - Ted Higgs (ted.higgs@uky.edu)
- Director of Graduate Studies - Milena Y. Minkova (mmink2@uky.edu)
Contact:
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington KY 40506-0027
ph: 859-257-3761
fax: 859-257-3743
classics@lsv.uky.edu
