Dr. Ann Wylie is the new Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
of the University of Maryland. Although
she has not studied Latin for many years
(she is a professor of geology), she took
advanced Latin courses in college where
she was a classmate of our colleague, Dr.
Judith Hallett. We consider her a friend of
the department.
Dr. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer-prizewinning
author and journalist who studied
Latin through the advanced level in
college. He has reviewed translations of
Classical texts and written introductory
essays for recent translations of Homer
and Ovid. He has long been a champion
of the Classics in his columns and a friend
of the Maryland Classics department in
particular. Most recently (spring 2010) he
presented a paper at our colloquium on
Thornton Wilder and Classical reception.
Dr. Linda Coleman is an Associate
Professor of English at the University of
Maryland, College Park. She studied Latin
through the advanced level in college and
for many years has taught rhetoric and
Classical literature in translation. She is
an affiliate faculty member of the Classics
Department.
Mr. Steven Dubrow is a teacher of Latin
and French at Walter Johnson High School
in Montgomery County, Maryland. As a
special student, he has taken courses in
Latin at the advanced level here at the
University and earned exemplary grades
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