Milena Minkova is Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky. She has published on Latin literature in its continuity, 12thcentury Renaissance, Latin Composition, Latin Pedagogy, and Active Latin. Recently, she co-authored with Terence Tunberg the introductory Latin series “Latin for the New Millennium.” Both Minkova and Tunberg direct the Institute for Latin Studies, a Graduate Certificate Curriculum within the M.A. Program in Classics at the University fo Kentucky, in which Latin is taught in its continuity from ancient until modern times and in the target language, and which attracts students from all corners of the US and the world. Minkova has taken part in or moderated seminars for spoken Latin in Europe and North America for two decades, and in 1998 she was elected fellow of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae, the Rome-based international organization for maintaining the use of Latin.
Dr. Nancy Llewellyn is a California native who has studied the Latin language and Latin literature of all periods for over twenty years. After earning her bachelor’s degree at Bryn Mawr, she studied with noted Vatican Latinist Fr. Reginald Foster for three years in Rome. She earned her Licenza in Christian and Classical Letters at the Pontifical Salesian University under the direction of Fr. Cletus Pavanetto, President of the Vatican’s Latinitas Foundation. During her graduate studies at UCLA, she was awarded the prestigious Luckman Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching. In 1997 she created SALVI, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting the speaking of Latin, under whose aegis she conducts annual spoken-Latin workshops that attract teachers and students from around the country. She teaches at Wyoming Catholic College, whose Latin program she initiated at the College's founding in 2007. Before her Wyoming appointment, she taught at Loyola Marymount University in Southern California and served as Project Coordinator of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Latina initiative at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Dr. Llewellyn’s interests include language pedagogy, Neo-Latin literature, paleography, and archaeology.
After completing her A.B. in classics at Princeton University, Liz won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford, where she earned an MSc in Comparative and International Education in 2012 and an MSt in Latin and Greek Languages and Literature in 2013. She was involved in classics outreach in Oxford and taught beginning Latin at a local primary school. Liz also loves digging, and has worked on excavations in Italy and Greece. She is an alumna of Living Greek in Greece and an assistant instructor for Living Latin in Rome (High School). She is currently a Development Officer based at the Paideia Institute's U.S. office.
Christopher has an A.B. in Classics at Princeton University, where he wrote a thesis on the hymns of Synesius of Cyrene, a bishop from North Africa. In addition to his literary interests, he loves archaeological sites and has participated in excavations at Stryme, in northern Greece. He is an alumnus of the Paideia Institute's first Living Latin in Rome program in 2011. He also participated in Living Latin in New York City 2013, and taught for Living Latin and Greek at Germantown Friends School. He is currently a Rome Fellow for 2014-2015, as well as an assistant instructor for Living Latin in Rome (High School).
Luca Grillo is William R. Kenan Junior Fellow and Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He has published on Virgil, Caesar and Cicero, and his main area of interest is Latin prose, with a focus on the historiography and rhetoric of the Roman Republic. His first book, The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile (Cambridge University Press, 2012) examines Caesar as a literary stylist. He is currently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Caesar with Christopher Krebs as well as a commentary of Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus.
Christopher Krebs is Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He has published widely on many aspects of Roman Literature, especially historiography and its reception. His most recent book, Tacitus' Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (Norton 2011), received the Christian Gauss Award and has been translated into six languages. He is currently preparing a commentary on Book 7 of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum as well as co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Caesar with Luca Grillo.