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.

Lily Hart

Lily Jane Hart has been working professionally as a language teacher for nearly fifteen years. Lily graduated cum laude with a BA in Classical Languages and Literatures from Smith College in 2005. After that, Lily spent two years in Europe, one of them as Fulbright fellow in teaching. She holds a certificate in teaching Classical and Modern Languages from the state of Vermont and is also endorsed to teach those subjects as an online classroom teacher.

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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). 

Patrick M. Owens

Dr. Patrick M. Owens is a fellow at the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship where he works on Patristic sources and Early Modern Reception. Dr. Owens' interest in spoken and active Latin pedagogy began as an undergraduate at Fordham University when he travelled to Rome to study under Fr. Reginald Foster. He then devoted himself to Neo-Latin literature as a student of the Accademia Vivarium Novum. Dr. Owens earned an M.A. in Classics from the University of Kentucky’s Institute of Latin Studies. In 2015 he defended his doctoral dissertation on Lucretian reception at the Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis in Rome. Dr. Owens has organized and moderated several seminars for spoken Latin and Latin pedagogy across America. He is currently the editor of the largest dictionary of Neo-Latin vocabulary and modern colloquial terminology.

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

Jana Richter

Jana graduated from Universität Leipzig (2013-2021) with a Master of Education, teacher training for Latin, Religious Education and Ancient Greek. She is a member of ‘Research Group, The Tetralogy Experiment’ at the Institute of Classical Philology and Comparatistic at University of Leipzig.

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”. 

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. His research focuses on ancient philosophy and political thought. His dissertation treats philosophic secrecy in Plato and select philosophers influenced by him. 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. He is also the co-founder (with Prof. Janet Downie) of the UNC-Duke Ancient Greek Speaking Circle. 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.

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.