Faculty books: February 2021
Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. (Classical Languages). Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions). Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.
González, Luis H. (Spanish & Italian). The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker. Routledge. 2021.
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Classical Languages department assisting with conference locally
Mary Pendergraft, professor and chair of the Department of Classical Languages, and other Wake Forest faculty will be involved in the Oct. 18-20 meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS–SS) in Winston-Salem.
The 98th Anniversary Meeting of CAMWS-SS will be held at the Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center at the invitation of Wake Forest. Pendergraft is working with T. Davina McClain, professor of Classics at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, to organize the event.
At the conference, classicists from colleges and universities across the south (Duke, Emory, Florida State, University of Kentucky, and more) will present on Greek and Latin literature, history and culture and will promote the study of Classics in the states of the organization’s Southern Section. The conference was last held in Winston-Salem in 2004.
An event associated with the conference will be held at Wake Downtown, also.
Additional information is available at the conference’s website.
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Hatch research grant awarded to Amy Lather
Amy Lather
Amy Lather, assistant professor of classical languages, was recently awarded the Nathan and Julie Hatch Research Grant for Academic Excellence.
The award includes a week of study at Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College. It also covers numerous expenses associated with the trip.
Lather plans to conduct research at the Oxfordshire Archives, where she will study ancient Greek aesthetics, perception and cognition.
“I am incredibly grateful for this unique opportunity as a junior faculty member to delve deeply into research and writing for a full week,” said Lather, who looks forward to meeting international scholars during her studies.
Lather joined Wake Forest’s faculty in 2016. Recently, she also was a recipient of the University’s Innovative Teaching Award.
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Pendergraft receives 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award from Society for Classical Studies
Mary Pendergraft, left, receiving Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award in 2016
The Society for Classical Studies has selected Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages, as a recipient of one of its 2017 awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level.
Pendergraft, chair of the classical languages department, “has tirelessly and masterfully taught, advised and mentored countless students,” according to the award citation.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising presented to her by Wake Forest in 2016. Three years earlier, she received the Excellence in College Teaching Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. That same association in 2013 presented her with the Ovatio, the association’s highest award for service to it and the classical languages profession.
At Wake Forest, she has been advisor for the University’s Eta Sigma Phi chapter for more than two decades and has encouraged many students who have attended and presented at the organization’s annual national conference.
“She has in a sense been mentoring the very field of Classics itself by directly inspiring so many students to remain engaged with the ancient world as teachers and as avid lifelong learners,” the citation states.
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