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Gwendolyn Compton-Engle,
Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Classics
Dr. Compton-Engle teaches all levels of Latin and Greek language
and literature, as well as courses on the classical world in translation.
Her research focuses on Greek drama, especially comedy. Her articles
on the fifth-century Athenian comic poet Aristophanes have appeared
in such journals as Classical Philology, Classical Journal, and
The American Journal of Philology. She is spending the 2007-08 academic year on a research leave, funded by the Grauel Faculty Fellowship and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, to work on a book about costume in fifth-century Athenian comedy.
Dr. Compton-Engle received her B.A. in Classics from St. Olaf
College and her Ph.D. in Classics from Cornell University.
After teaching at Colgate University and St. Olaf College,
she came to John Carroll in 2002.
Spring 2008 - On Leave
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Thomas R. Nevin,
Ph.D.,
Professor of Classical Studies
Dr. Thomas Nevin has written four books. His Irving Babbitt:
An Intellectual Study (Chapel Hill, 1984) was given
the Alpha Sigma Nu Award from the Society of Jesus. Simone
Weil (Chapel Hill, 1991) was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize. Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss,
1914-1945 (Duke, 1996 and Constable, 1997) was as vigorously
attacked in Britain as it was sedulously ignored in America.
His latest book, on Thérèse of Lisieux, popularly
known as The Little Flower, appeared from Oxford University
Press in November, 2006.
His special interests include ancient historiography, ancient
philosophy, and the New Testament.
Spring 2008
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Fr. Claude Pavur ,
S.J., Ph.D.,
Edmund F. Miller, S.J., Chair in Classics
Fr. Claude Pavur comes to John Carroll from the Modern and
Classical Languages Department at Saint Louis University. He
has published a study of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche
Humanist) and a translation of the influential Jesuit
educational plan from 1599, the Ratio Studiorum. In
his year as the Miller Chair, he intends to continue work on
a translation of Pedro Ribadeneyra's life of Saint Ignatius. His
leading interests now include Latin pedagogy, Jesuit education,
and the history of classical humanism.
Spring 2008
- Office: O'Malley Center 129
- Office Hours: M/W/F 10:15 - 11:15 AM, 2:15 - 3:15 PM - usually & by appt.
- Phone: (216) 397-4590
- E-Mail: cpavur@jcu.edu
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PART-TIME
CLASSICS FACULTY
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Rev. Frank P. Lihvar,
S.J., Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor Emeritus of
Classical Languages
Father Lihvar teaches part time on all levels of Latin and Greek.
He has recently completed a translation of the Seven
Gifts of the Holy Spirit of St. Bonaventure.
He received his B.A. in Classics from the Loyola University,
Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Chicago.
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Donald M. Poduska,
Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
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Samuel Rametta,
M.A., M.S.,
Lecturer in Classics
Spring 2008
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