The faculty of the Classics Department at College Park is recognized for its dedication to teaching, as well as for many contributions to scholarship. Classics faculty have won a number of teaching awards and are committed to creating an active and supportive learning community. They bring to their teaching the fruits of their exciting and diverse research interests:
- Greek drama and its reception in Mexico (Prof. Barrenechea);
- the archaeology of Greek cult and ancient athletics (Prof. Bravo);
- Greek epic and the interpretation and reception of classical mythology (Prof. Doherty);
- gendered perspectives on Latin literature; women, sexuality and the family in Greco-roman society; and classics in the19th-20th century anglophone world (Prof. Hallett);
- the nature and influence of Senecan tragedy and American attitudes toward classical myth (Prof. Staley).
Department Chair
Professor Lillian
E. Doherty (ldoherty@umd.edu)
301 405-2022
BA Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana; MA and PhD University of Chicago.
Interests: Homer, classical reception, women in antiquity
Faculty
Professor Judith
Peller Hallett Graduate Director (jeph@umd.edu)
301 405-2024
BA Wellesley College; MA and PhD Harvard University
Interests: Latin Literature, women in antiquity, Classical
tradition
Professor Emeritus Hugh Ming Lee (hlee6@umd.edu)
301 405-2023
BA St. Mary's College of California; MA and PhD Stanford University.
Interests: Ancient sports, Greek and Latin literature
Professor Eva
M. Stehle (estehle@umd.edu)
301 405-2019
BA University of Pennsylvania; PhD University of Cincinnati.
Interests: Greek poetry and performance, Greek religion, women in antiquity
Associate Professor Steven
H. Rutledge (shr@umd.edu)
BA University of Massachusetts at Boston; PhD Brown University.
Interests: Tacitus, Roman rhetoric and politics
Associate Professor Gregory
A. Staley Undergraduate Director (gstaley@umd.edu)
301 405-2016
AB Dickinson College; MA and PhD Princeton University.
Interests: Myth, classical tradition, Silver Latin literature
Assistant Professor Francisco Barrenechea (fbarrene@umd.edu)
301 405-2013
Licenciatura degree in Classical Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Ancient drama, including its performance and reception; Greek poetry; Latin epic; papyrology
Assistant Professor Jorge J. Bravo III (jbravo@umd.edu)
301 405-2360
AB in Classics from Princeton University
PhD University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Ancient Greek hero cult, religion and identity, Greek archaeology, ancient athletics, sex and gender
Affiliate Associate Professor Joseph
Scholten (scholten@umd.edu)
301 405- 1559
AB University of Michigan Ann Arbor; MA and PhD University of
California, Berkeley
Interests: Greek and Roman history and historiography (especially Hellenistic
and Republican eras); ancient topography; Greek and Latin epigraphy; ancient
numismatics
Affiliate Professor Joan Burton (jburton1@umd.edu)
301-314-1920
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Hellenistic and Byzantine Cultural History and Literature, ancient and medieval narrative,
gender roles in antiquity, politics and patronage
Visiting Assistant Professor Polyvia Parara (pparara@umd.edu)
301-405-2013
BA from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Philosophy
MA and PhD from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France.
Interests: Ancient Drama, Epic Poetry, and Ancient History
Lecturer Mary Pittas-Herschbach
(mph@umd.edu)
301 405-0356
B.A. University of Illinois
MA and Ph.D University of Maryland College Park
Interests: Euripides, classical tradition, modern Greek literature.
Adjunct Brendan Magee
(bmagee@gmail.com)
301 405-2013
BA in History from the University of Notre Dame.
MA in Greek and Latin from the University of Maryland.
Adjunct Jason Edwards
(eurydamas@gmail.com)
301 405-2013
MA in Latin from the University of Maryland.
Adjunct Ryan Moore (ryan_t_moore@yahoo.com
301 405-2013
BA in History and Classics from Baylor University
MA in Greek and Latin from the University of Maryland
Adjunct Scott Proffitt (wproffitt@hotmail.com
301 405-2013
BA in History and Classical Civilization from the University of Richmond
MA in Latin from the University of Maryland
Graduate Teaching Assistants (301 405-0118)
Phillip Gallagher
(philgallagher11@gmail.com)
Rachel Mullervy (Rachel.mullervy@gmail.com)
Jake Schilling (shilling.jake@gmail.com)
Kenneth Silverman (knsilvr@gmail.com)
Rian Sirkus (rks78@cornell.edu)
