Living Greek in Greece

Claire Catenaccio

Claire Catenaccio is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University. She received her A.B. in Classics from Harvard University in 2007, her M.Phil. in Classics from Oxford University in 2009, and her Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University in 2017. Her primary field of research is ancient drama, focusing at present on the role of solo actor's song (monody) in the tragedies of Euripides. She has published articles on the significance of lamed figures in Greek mythology, on the use of masks in Attic tragedy, on the imagery of dreams in Aeschylus' Oresteia, and on singing actors in Sophocles' Trachiniae. As a director, dramaturge, translator, and actress, she has worked extensively with modern stagings of ancient plays, and she loves bringing Greek and Latin poetry to life through performance!

Joseph Conlon

Joseph Conlon has a BA from Reed College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught in various Paideia programs since 2011, including LGiG, LLiR, and LLiR(HS), and also teaches Sanskrit through Telepaideia. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship with Paideia and is creating digital resources for learning Latin and Ancient Greek, including a Latin high school textbook. He is interested in language pedagogy, theories of language acquisition, historical linguistics, Homer, Plato, and Plautus.

Anna Conser

Anna Conser is a Ph.D. student in Classics at Columbia University, where she has served as director for the Ancient Drama Group. In addition to tragic performance, Anna's research interests include ancient music, Aristotle's Poetics, and the aesthetic of intellectual wonder in philosophical and scientific writing. Her preliminary dissertation work investigates how pitch accent patterns in choral song may reveal musical structure, with implications for the literary interpretation of tragedy. Anna received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2007, and subsequently spent several years working odd jobs, traveling, and studying around the world. Highlights include four months in India, a Fulbright Fellowship in Erfurt, Germany, and a year of Arabic study in Damascus, Syria. 

Richard Hutchins

Darrel Janzen

Darrel Janzen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia and has enjoyed teaching at Living Greek in Greece since 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Classics at Brown University in 2018. His research interests centre on the literature and culture of the early Roman empire, and he is currently writing a book about solitude in the early Roman empire and the cultural significance that Romans assigned to behaviour that they viewed as solitary. Darrel is also involved in producing a student edition of Seneca’s De Clementia and an edition and translation of the Latin poetry of the 16^th century Italian poet Pierio Valeriano for Harvard University Press. Darrel also enjoys teaching and researching about the Greek world: he is particularly interested Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Greek attitudes towards the environment.

Cat Lambert

Cat Lambert is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University and holds a B.A. in Classics from Princeton University. She specializes in ancient book culture, combining book historical approaches with literary and performance criticism in order to situate material texts in a larger social world, showing how physical books and other inscribed objects participate in the construction of style, gender, power, and the body. She is currently working on two projects: one on ancient Roman bookworms (of the entomological variety), and the other on book roles in Attic Comedy. She also has an abiding interest in the poetics and language of desire, gender, and sexuality from Sappho to C. P. Cavafy.  Before starting her Ph.D. at Columbia in 2016, Cat served as the Annenberg Fellow at Eton College in the U.K., where she taught Latin and Greek to boys in tailcoats and coached rugby. Cat is passionate about engaged pedagogy, καρπούζι, and anything written by Sara Ahmed.

Jason Pedicone

Jason Pedicone, the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institute, received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2013. Jason has taught courses in Latin, Greek, and the history of Classical Scholarship at the university level in the U.S. and Western Europe, and is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Fordham University. Jason’s research and public speaking focus on public humanities and Latin and Greek pedagogy. Jason received a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Germany in 2004, and a Jacob Javits Fellowship in 2013 to support his graduate work.  In 2015, together with Paideia's co-founder, Eric Hewett, Jason was awarded the President’s Award by the Society for Classical Studies for outstanding achievements in promoting the study of Classics. He lives in Manhattan.

Alex Petkas

Alex is finishing his PhD in Classics at Princeton University. His interests include late antique Greek literature, ancient rhetoric and literary criticism, and animals in ancient thought. His dissertation is on the figure of the philosopher in the epistolary corpus of Synesius of Cyrene. He has taught at LGiG since its inception.