Patricia Craig

Patricia Craig holds a PhD in Greek and Latin from The Catholic University of America, where she wrote a dissertation on Senecan drama and Stoic appropriation of tragic exempla. She is particularly interested in Seneca’s tragic characters who appear to be exempla of interior freedom or virtuous death. She is fascinated by the conversation among philosophers and poets, especially in ancient Greece and imperial Rome. Patricia has taught Latin and Ancient Greek at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Speaking the ancient languages is a central aspect of her mixed-method approach in the classroom. She developed fluency in speaking Greek and Latin by attending summer programs at the University of Kentucky, inter alia. She has also organized a spoken Latin Triduum at Christendom College, where she currently teaches Classics and Early Christian Studies.

Daniel Gallagher

After a decade of service to Benedict XVI and Francis as a papal Latinist, Daniel Gallagher was named the Ralph and Jeanne Kanders Professor of the Practice in Latin at Cornell University in 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of America, and the Pontifical Gregorian University and has published extensively in medieval philosophy, especially in the areas of metaphysics and aesthetics. He is dedicated to handing on the Latin language based on the principles and methodology of his long-time mentor, Reginald Foster.

Marina Garanin

Marina Garanin, graduated from Heidelberg and Oxford in 2017, is a PhD student at the University of Heidelberg. She works on grammatical aspects of translations from Greek into Latin, and teaches courses in Latin and Greek language and metre. She is particularly interested in formal aspects of texts such as grammar, metre, stilistics and rhetorics, enjoys most the Augustean poets and Cicero. She takes part in different Latin (and Greek) speaking convents such as the Septimana Latina in Amoeneburg, the Schola Aestiva Posnaniensis or Caelum in Madrid. Besides, she writes poetry in German, English and Latin. Her first poetry book was published in 2018, and some of her Latin poems can be found in the periodical Vox Latina of 2019.

Laura Manning

Laura is a Latin teacher with fourteen years of experience teaching in diverse environments and at different levels, from Introductory Latin through AP. Her teaching experience has included face-to-face courses that meet on various schedules, blended courses, and courses delivered entirely online. In 2013, she was honored to be named Teacher of the Year in Pequannock Township High School. She is currently certified to teach in these states: New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Washington, and Alabama.

Early on in the course of her teaching career, Laura developed an interest in active Latin teaching methods. She has been facilitating the active use and acquisition of Latin in the Conventiculum Lexintoniense in Kentucky, and has been an avid participant since 2004. In 2014, she made the decision to go back to school, in order to increase her understanding of the Latin language and literature from all ages and how to teach it.

In August 2016, Laura earned her Master's Degree in Classics, and the Graduate Certificate in Latin studies at the University of Kentucky, which is a degree in spoken Latin. She is about to receive her PhD in Education Sciences with a focus on Latin pedagogy, investigating teaching methods that have supported the teaching of Latin as a second language for millennia.

Milena Minkova

Milena Minkova is Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky. She has published on Latin literature in its continuity, 12^th century Renaissance, Latin Composition, Latin Pedagogy, and Active Latin. Together with Terence Tunberg, Minkova has co-authored the introductory Latin series “Latin for the New Millennium.” Both Minkova and Tunberg moderate the Institute for Latin Studies, a Graduate Certificate Curriculum associated with the M.A. Program in Classics at the University of Kentucky, in which Latin is taught in its continuity from ancient until modern times and in the target language (since 2020 the Certificate is being offered online as well). Minkova’a most recent volume is a critical anthology of Neo-Latin Florilegium recentioris Latinitatis (Leuven University Press, 2018). 

Alex Petkas

Alex is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno. He received his PhD in Classics from 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.

Luke Ranieri

Christophe Rico

Linguist Christophe Rico has a doctorate in ancient Greek and holds the French official accreditation to direct PhD research. Member of the Faculty of the University of Strasbourg, he is Professor of Greek Philology at the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem. Since 2011, he is the Dean of the Polis Institute at Jerusalem where ancient languages (Greek, Latin, biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, classical Arabic) are taught through full immersion as living languages according to the “Polis method”. 

David Ring

David Ring teaches Latin and Ancient Greek as living languages by using an eclectic mix of methods, ranging from the insights of Renaissance Humanist pedagogy (especially the advice of Erasmus) to the Direct or Nature method to (first and foremost) Teaching with Comprehensible Input.  Be it a discussion in Latin or Greek about a beautiful painting, or personal life conversation, or solving riddles, or paraphrasing poets into simpler prose, or storyboarding Lucian's True Stories -- David and his students aim to "get lost" in the joy of what they are doing, such that they "forget" they are speaking Latin or Ancient Greek.  He believes that the purpose of liberal education is to help young people grow in self-knowledge -- both individual and cultural --, to help them form sharp intellects, wise judgment, and greatness of soul.  He believes this is best done via direct encounters with the greatest minds and greatest stories of the last 3,000 years. 

Roberto Salazar

Roberto Salazar is an experienced polyglot language coach and nomadic classicist, with a passion for teaching Latin and Greek as spoken languages, and an impossible desire to speak all tongues imaginable, and to teach them to those who want to learn them. 

He has taught Latin, Greek, Arabic, German and more in different places around the world, including various Paideia programs, online and on site.  A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he studied Classics and Philosophy, he's currently writing a PhD dissertation on the reception of Greek tragedy in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America. He has also done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin. 

He has published fiction translations into French and Spanish from various languages including Swedish. In 2017, he was the head literary curator for the French-Colombian Year. 

That's probably why he's still scrambling to complete his PhD at the University of Versailles. 

He currently lives between Athens, Cairo and Saint Denis, France.

Jenny Teichmann

Jenny studied German and Slavic philology in Greifswald, European Cultural History in Frankfurt/Oder, and, finally, Classics at Humboldt University Berlin. She is currently finishing her Master’s thesis – a German translation of the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda – and plans to pursue a PhD afterwards. She has partaken in major translation projects as the Vulgata Deutsch and a new translation of the Greek Anthology into German. She holds close contact with the Polis Institute, Jerusalem, and is co-founder of the Σύλλογος Ἑλληνικός, a weekly meeting point for Greek enthusiasts in the Berlin area.

Leo Trotz-Liboff

Leo Trotz-Liboff is a PhD candidate in the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University. Leo’s research focuses on ancient philosophy and political thought. His dissertation treats philosophic secrecy in Plato and select philosophers influenced by him. An article of his on Epicureanism in Vergil’s Georgics will appear this spring in The Classical Journal and a co-authored book chapter (with Jed W. Atkins) on Cicero’s De oratore is also forthcoming in the volume Cicero as Philosopher published by De Gruyter. Leo loves speaking classical languages and is an alumnus of Paideia’s Living Latin in Rome, the Oxford Latinitas Project, and the Accademia Vivarium Novum’s Septimana Latina. Currently, he is instructor of record for introductory ancient Greek at Duke, where he employs spoken Greek in a variety of activities. Leo holds a BA in Classics from Middlebury College and an MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. 

Terence Tunberg

Terence Tunberg completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Classics and the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1986. He began to devote himself to spoken Latin as a graduate student and has since then regularly taken part in seminars for spoken Latin in Europe and North America. In 1998 he was elected fellow of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae, the Rome-based international organization for maintaining the use of Latin. He has moderated the Conventiculum Latinum Lexintoniense, an annual immersion seminar in spoken Latin, for nearly two decades. Together with Milena Minkova he teaches in the Institutum Studiis Latinis Provehendis at the University of Kentucky, a two-year post-graduate curriculum in which Latin literature and Latin composition are taught entirely in Latin. He has published extensively on prose style in classical and Neo-Latin, and has won international prizes for Latin composition. Together with Milena Minkova he has written a manual of Latin prose composition.

Stefano Vittori

Stefano Vittori had his Bachelor Degree in “Lettere Classiche” at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2011 with a thesis of Latin language and literature on the rendering of classic metrics in Italian language (supervisor prof. L. Gamberale). Subsequently, he had his Master’s Degree in Orientalistics at the University of Pisa in 2014 with a thesis of Egyptology on the “Dialogue between a Man and his Ba” (pBerlin 3024) (supervisor prof. M. Betrò). At the same University, he completed his Ph. D. summa cum laude and with rights of publication in 2018 with an Egyptology thesis about the orthographic variations in relationship with morphology occurring in the Pyramid Texts (supervisor prof. M. Betrò, prof. A. Loprieno, and prof. A. Stauder). During his Ph. D., he published for specialized journals both in the field of Egyptology and more generally in those of Linguistics (es. “Egitto e Vicino Oriente”, “Latinitas”). In Latin, on “Latinitas”, he wrote an article about the similarities between the ancient Egyptian Lamentation literature and the Roman Satire (“Latinitas” 2014). Since 2018, he has translated popular songs, mostly Disney’s, into Latin, to be sung by Luke Amadeus Ranieri on his channel ScorpioMartianus. Some of these pieces, like “In igni”, “Duce me”, or “Mundus pateat”, have reached a considerable audience. One of the last pieces, “the Wellerman’s song”, is in ancient Egyptian, and adapts the content of the middle Egyptian tale of “The Shipwrecked Sailor” (pLeningrad 1115) using the reconstructed vocalization based on Vergote’s, Osing’s, and Vycichls’s studies. On his own Youtube channel, he delves mainly with metrics, publishing recitations of both prose and poetry, and, since 2022, he began with Marina Garanin a cycle of lessons held in Latin about ancient Egyptian language and writing. Since 2021, he has taught ancient Egyptian language in the Athena Nova private school and Latin and Greek in the Italian public High School “A. Meucci” of Aprilia (Latium), where he developed a method strongly based on historical and comparative linguistics, which is focused on morphology and on etymology as a tool for memorizing lexicon, producing didactic materials of his own. His original poetic compositions have been published on the international review “Vox latina”. In 2022, he wrote a Latin tragedy in iambic trimeters and lyrical meters, “Medeae daemones”, which was awarded two prizes in the international contest “Thalia” (Vicenza, August 1st-7th, 2022).

Leon Wash

Leon Wash is a Lecturer at Colgate University, and studies poetry, science, and philosophy in Greek and other languages, and especially the authors Pindar and Empedocles. Together with Dr. Alessandro Buccheri and Prof. Arnaud Macé, Leon organizes the series Phusis kai Phuta: On Nature and Plants in Ancient Greece (phusiskaiphuta.wordpress.com). 

David White

David J. White is a Senior Lecturer in the Classics Department at Baylor University where he teaches Latin at all levels.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where he wrote his dissertation on book 10 of Columella's Res Rustica.  A student of Reginald Foster, a veteran of many Living Latin--and Greek--conventicula, and a frequent participant in LLiNYC, he has taught through Telepaideia since the spring of 2020.