The Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellows Program is an annual collaborative program between Brown University and Wheaton College, offering "outstanding advanced graduate students the opportunity to experience faculty life firsthand at a liberal arts college". Wheaton College is a selective, coeducational liberal arts college located in nearby Norton, Massachusetts. As with most liberal arts colleges, Wheaton's educational philosophy is predicated on a close, collaborative relationship between students and faculty. By teaching a one-semester course at Wheaton and participating in the intellectual life of the college, Brown/Wheaton Fellows gain a better understanding of the responsibilities and challenges of academic life at a four-year, liberal arts college.

This year, Classics PhD student, Chris Ell, was selected as one of the Brown/Wheaton Fellows. Chris is teaching a course entitled Tales of Troy which explores the various ways in which the story of the Trojan War has been told and examines the different cultural and political significance it has had from antiquity to the present. Students taking the course this semester will engage with literary texts, visual media, and archaeological evidence dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age Aegean.

You can read more about Chris's course and the other Brown/Wheaton Fellows on the Graduate School website. Congratulations to Chris on this impressive academic achievement!