Clinton Kinkade
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing
Education
- Ph.D. Duke University
- M.A. University of Chicago
- B.A. Colby College
Areas of Expertise
- Greek Tragedy
- Ancient Scholarship
- Ancient Biography
- Greek and Latin Language
Background
I am an Adjunct Lecturer in the Writing Program, where I am currently teaching a course on ancient biography in the Greek and Roman world. My research interests include the reception of Greek tragedy, ancient Greek and Roman scholarship, and methods of ancient literary criticism.
My current major project in particular examines how different scholarly camps coalesced around the three Greek tragedians and served as both bellwethers and transformers of their early receptions. I am also interested in ancient biographical practices and Greek comedy's use of tragedy. I have taught courses on introductory Greek, Latin at various levels, Greek literature broadly, and Roman drama for many years at both the secondary and college level.
I have a strong interest in exploring more active forms of pedagogy for ancient languages and have participated in spoken programs in 2017 with Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece Program and in 2019 with the Conventiculum Dickinsoniense. Since 2017, I have also been co-editor of Photios On-Line, a project producing a decentralized, crowd-sourced translation of Photios’ Lexicon.