Classics

On the Move! – Classics Alums Update Us on What They’re Up To

Story Submitted by Rob Hardy, 1991 Ph.D.

Over the summer I enjoyed reading books 10 and 11 of the Odyssey over Zoom with students of 2021 Grimshaw-Gudewicz Lecturer Prof. Christopher Francese at Dickinson College, as part of the process of creating a new DCC Commentary. Now I'm excited to be teaching Latin 101 in person at Carleton College—my first time back in front of a college classroom since 2016.

Story Submitted by Harry Haskell, 1976, A.B

As part of a podcast I'll be hosting about Katharine Wright Haskell (the Wright Brothers' sister, and my step-grandmother), I'm interviewing Judith Hallett, professor emerita of classics at the University of Maryland, about Katharine's brief career as a high-school Latin teacher in Dayton, Ohio, at the turn of the last century. Michael Putnam kindly put me in touch with Judy, who has made a special study of women in the classics field. The podcast will be released in conjunction with the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky's opera "Finding Wright" in Dayton in February 2022.