CURRICULUM VITAE

Carl P. E. Springer, Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Classical Studies Program, Peck Hall 0219, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. Office phone: 618-650-2144; home phone: 314-961-6765; personal cell: 314-359-9587; e-mail: casprin@siue.edu; website: http:// www.siue.edu/~casprin/
		
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979-84 PhD (Classics; Latin).
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1978-79 MA (Biblical Languages).
Northwestern College 1973-77 BA (emphases in Classics, German, and Theology).

Academic Positions
Professor: Department of English Language and Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2010-present.
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Classical Studies Minor Program: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2002-present.
Director of the Liberal Studies Program: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2006-10.
Associate Dean: College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2000-10. 
Professor and Chair: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1996-2000.
Alexander von Humboldt-Research Fellow: University of Regensburg, Institut für klassische Philologie, 1993-4.
Associate Professor: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1990-6.
Fulbright Research Fellow: Corpus Christianorum; St. Peter’s Abbey, Brugge, Belgium, 1990. 
Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Assistant Professor: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1984-90.
Graduate Research Fellow: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982-4. 
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979-82.

Scholarly Publications 

Accepted or Commissioned for Publication and In Progress
Article on “Sedulius” for Traditio Patrum, to be published by Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium).
Sedulii Opera Omnia. New critical edition commissioned by Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina (Turnhout: Brepols). 
“Sedulius.” Article for Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Eds. Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Brown, James Hankins, Robert Kaster (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press).
Translations of selected Latin disputations by Luther for expanded edition of Luther’s Works (Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis).
 
In press
Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns. Translation with introduction and notes, in the Society of Biblical Literature’s series: Writings from the Greco-Roman World, Michael Roberts, editor.
 “Arator,” in The Virgil Encyclopedia, eds. Jan Ziolkowski and Richard Thomas (Wiley-Blackwell).
“Church Fathers,” in The Virgil Encyclopedia, eds. Jan Ziolkowski and Richard Thomas (Wiley-Blackwell).
Essays on selected Latin hymns of Ambrose, Prudentius, Sedulius and others for the Lutheran Service Book Hymnal Companion (Concordia Publishing House, eds. Jon D. Vieker and Peter Reske; c. 10 pages). “The Reformation,” Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“Martin Luther,” entry for Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“Philipp Melanchthon,” entry for Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“John Calvin,” entry for Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“Erasmus’ Theological Writings,” entry for Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“Latin and Lutheran Education,” entry for Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies (to be published by E.J. Brill in 2013, eds. Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi).
“Sedulius,” The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, ed. J.R. Watson (London: Canterbury Press).
 “Abecedaries,” The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, ed. J.R. Watson (London: Canterbury Press).

2012
“Wise, Steadfast, and Magnanimous: Patrons of the Classics in Luther’s Wittenberg,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 21:27-32.
“Death and Life after Death in Martin Luther’s Latin Elegies” in the Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis, ed. Astrid Steiner-Weber (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012), 1049-1059.
“Lutheranism and the Classics,” special issue of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, which I co-edited (with Dr. Jon Bruss). 
Review of Robert Shorrock, The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011) in Journal of Late Antiquity 5 (2012), 218-20.

2011
Luther’s Aesop = Early Modern Studies 8 (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press), 250 pp. See http://www.tsup.truman.edu/item.asp?itemID=457 and http://thisweekincas.com/2012/01/16/springers-book-looks-to-luther-and-aesop/. Nominated by the publisher for the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize. Reviewed by C. Scott Dixon in Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012), 958-9.
“Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi,” in Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel, eds. Marilia P. Futre Pinheiro and Stephen J. Harrison = Ancient Narrative Supplementum 14 (Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing), vol. 1, pp. 95-106. 
Translation of Martin Luther’s “Preface to a Complaint Concerning Good Faith by a Pious and Spiritual Parson (as It Appears) from before Our Own Age, Recently Discovered,” in Luther’s Works 60 (Prefaces II), ed. Christopher Boyd Brown (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House), 95-102.
Translation of Martin Luther’s Preface to John Hus, “Some Very Godly and Erudite Letters, Sufficient Themselves to Show That the Godliness of the Papists is Satanic Madness,” in Luther’s Works 60 (Prefaces II), ed. Christopher Boyd Brown (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House), 152-8. 
Translation of Martin Luther’s Preface to George Major, “Lives of the Fathers,” in Luther’s Works 60 (Prefaces II), ed. Christopher Boyd Brown (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House), 315-23.

2010	
 “Ovid, Christianity, and Etiquette: The Uses of Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico City,” The Annals of Ovidius University Constanta-Philology 21:145-157. See: http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/litere/Anale/Fisiere/10_volumul_XXI_2010/16_Carl_E._Springer.pdf).
“De Profundis: Research Adventures in the Roman Catacombs,” in Adventures in the Academy: Professors in the Land of Lincoln and Beyond (Edwardsville: SIUE), 13-22.
Review of Josef Eskhult, Andreas Norrelius’ Latin translation of Johan Kemper’s Hebrew commentary on Matthew. Edited with introduction and philological commentary, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Latina Upsaliensia 32 (Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2007) in Sjuttonhundratal, Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies, annual journal of Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier, 191-3.
Translation of Martin Luther’s “Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent, 2 Cor. 6:1-10; Admonition Concerning the Ban or Excommunication; Exhortation to the Jurists, February 23, 1539,” Luther’s Works (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House), vol. 58 (ed. Christopher Boyd Brown), 3-15. 
“Hilary of Poitiers,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, eds. George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith III (Lanham, Toronto, and Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press), vol. II, 364-5.
“Valentin Weigel,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, eds. George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith III (Lanham, Toronto, and Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press), vol. II, 633-4.
“C.F.W. Walther,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, eds. George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith III (Lanham, Toronto, and Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press), vol. II, 624-5.

2009
“Luther’s Latin Poetry and Scatology,”Lutheran Quarterly 23:373-87.
Review of Richard M. Gamble, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to be an Educated Human Being (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2007), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 16:625-8.

2008
“Luther’s Aesop,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 17:17-24. Abridged version published in Luther Digest 19 (2011), 85-8. 
“Wittenberg and Athens,” special issue of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 17, for which I served as guest editor and wrote the introduction to the issue (pp. 5-7). See http://www.logia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:17-4&catid=29:previous

2007
“Martin’s Martial: Reconsidering Luther’s Relationship with the Classics,” The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14:23-50.
“Give Me that Old-Time Erudition: Instances of Scholarship and Pedagogy from Yesteryear,” Oculus: The Newsletter of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South 17:12.

2004
“Carmen ad quendam senatorem,” in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum: Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt, eds. Heinzgerd Brakmann, Albrecht Dihle, Josef Engemann, Karl Hoheisel, Wolfgang Speyer, and Klaus Thraede, Supplement-Band (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann), vol. II, 319-23.
“Carmen contra Paganos,” in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum: Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt, eds. Heinzgerd Brakmann, Albrecht Dihle, Josef Engemann, Karl Hoheisel, Wolfgang Speyer, and Klaus Thraede, Supplement-Band (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann), vol. II, 323-31.

2003
“Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther’s Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum,” The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 10:38-53.
“The Biblical Epic in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period: The Poetics of Tradition,” in Antiquity Renewed: Late Classical and Early Modern Themes, eds. Zweder von Martels and Victor M. Schmidt (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA: Peeters), 103-26.

2002
“Hilary of Poitiers,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena: Salem Press), ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz, vol. II, 617-8.
“Paulinus of Nola,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena: Salem Press), ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz, vol. II, 877.
“Salvian,” Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena: Salem Press), ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz, vol. III, 978. 
Review of Andrew Weeks, Valentin Weigel (1533-88): German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance (Binghamton, NY: SUNY Press, 2000), in Journal of English and German Philology 101:597-9.
Review of Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets in The Early Church Fathers, ed. C. Harrison (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 10:299-300.
Review of Birgit Stolt, Martin Luthers Rhetorik des Herzens (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2000), in Journal of English and German Philology 101:105-7.

2001
“Te Deum.” Theologische Realenzyklopädie, eds. Stuart Hall, et al. (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter), vol. XXXIII, 23-28.

2000
“Martin Luther, the Oreads of Wittenberg, and Sola Gratia,” in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Avila 4-9 August 1997, eds. Rhoda Schnur, J. Costas, R. Green, A. Iurilli, E. McCutcheon, A. Moreno, M. Mund-Dopchie, H. Wiegand = Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 207 (Tempe, Arizona: University of Arizona Press), 611-618.
“The Hymns of Ambrose,” chapter in Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, ed. Richard Valantasis, in Princeton Readings in Religion (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 347-56.
Review of Philip Melanchthon, Orations on Philosophy and Education, ed. Sachiko Kusukawa in Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: University Press, 1999), Seventeenth-Century News 58:307-309.

1998
Review of Joyce L. Irwin, Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque in American University Studies, Series VII: Theology and Religion, Vol. 132 (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), in CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 6:56.
Review of Philip Melanchthon, Annotations on First Corinthians, introduced, translated, and edited by John Patrick Donnelly S.J., in series Reformation Texts with Translation (1350-1650), ed. Kenneth Hagen (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), in Seventeenth-Century News 56:158-9.

1997
“The Hermeneutics of Innocence: Literary Criticism from a Christian Perspective.” Presented at conference on “Christian Scholarship: Knowledge, Reality, and Method,” University of Colorado, 1997 and published electronically at http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/springer.html
Review of Carl Schalk, God’s Song in a New Land: Lutheran Hymnals in America (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995) and Source Documents in American Lutheran Hymnody (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1996), in CrossAccents: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 5:57.
Review of Frank Senn, The Witness of the Worshipping Community: Liturgy and the Practice of Evangelism (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) in CrossAccents: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 5:58.
“Nicetas and the Authorship of the Te Deum,” Studia Patristica. Vol. XXX: Biblica et Apocrypha, Ascetica, Liturgica, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA: Peeters), 325-31.

1996
Review of J. den Boeft and A. Hillhorst, eds., Early Christian Poetry = Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae: Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language 22 (Leiden, New York, and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1994), Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996), 392-4.
“Reflections on Lutheran Worship, Classics and the Te Deum,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 5:29-41 [reprinted in CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 7 (1999):28-37.]

1995
“The Concinnity of Ambrose’s Illuminans Altissimus,” in Panchaia. Festschrift für Professor Klaus Thraede = Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum Ergänzungsband 22, ed. Manfred Wacht (Münster Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung), 228-237.
The Manuscripts of Sedulius. A Provisional Handlist = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 85, pt. 5 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society), xxii + 244. [Nominated by publisher for the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit. Reviewed in Revue des Études Augustiniennes 42 (1996):355-6; Scriptorium 51 (1997):69; Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53.1 (1997):197; Medioevo Latino 18 (1997):391; Classical Review 48 (1998):198.] 

1994
“Fannius and Scaevola in Cicero’s De Amicitia,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History VII = Collection Latomus 227, ed. Carl Deroux (Brussels: Latomus, Revue des études latines 227), 267-78.

1993
“Jerome and the Cento of Proba,” Studia Patristica. Vol. XXVIII: Other Latin Authors, Nachleben of the Fathers, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA: Peeters), 96-105.

1992
Review of G.M.A. Grube, Longinus, On Great Writing (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing), in Patristics (Newsletter of the North American Patristics Society) 20 (1992):8-9.

1991
“Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory and Practice in the Late Quattrocento,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Toronto 8 August to 13 August 1988, eds.Alex. Dalzell, Ch. Fantazzi, R.J. Schoeck = Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 86 (Binghamton, NY: SUNY-Binghamton Press), 739-746.
“Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium: The Aesthetics of Antiphony,” Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 34 (1991):76-87.

1990
Review of Anne-Marie Palmer, Prudentius on the Martyrs in the Oxford Classical Monograph Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), in Patristics 18:5.

1989
“Augustine and Vergil: The Poet as Mendax Vates,” Studia Patristica, Vol. XXII: Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysostom and his Greek Contemporaries, Augustine, Donatism and Pelagianism, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA: Peeters), 337-43.

1988
The Gospel as Epic in Late Antiquity: The Paschale Carmen of Sedulius = Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae: Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language II, eds. A.F.J. Klijn, Christine Mohrmann, G. Quispel, J.H. Waszink, J.C.M. van Winden (Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1988), xii + 168. [Reviewed in Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 32 (1989):197-203; Classical Review 40 (1989):159; Revue des études latines 67 (1989):416-7; Patristics 19 (1990):9; Helmantica 41 (1990):411-3; Religious Studies Review 17 (1991):166-7; Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 48.1 (1992):271-2.]
“Horace’s Soracte Ode: Location, Dislocation, and the Reader,” Classical World 82:1-9.

1987
“The Prosopopoeia of the Church as Mother in Augustine’s Psalmus contra Partem Donati,” Augustinian Studies 18:52-65.
“The Last Line of the Aeneid,” The Classical Journal 82:310-313.
“Sedulius’ A Solis Ortus Cardine: The Hymn and its Tradition,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 101:69-75.

1985
“The Artistry of Augustine’s Psalmus contra Partem Donati,” Augustinian Studies 16:65-74.

1984
“Aratus and the Cups of Menalcas: A Note on Eclogue 3. 42,” The Classical Journal 79:131-4.

Awards and grants
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to write an article on Sedulius to be published in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, 2006-8.
Illinois Humanities Council Grant, “Thinking about Religion: Engaging the Community,” in support of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Third Annual Spring Colloquium (in collaboration with Professor Greg Fields and SIUE’s Religious Center), 2006.
“Outstanding University Researcher Award,” Illinois State University, 1997.
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, sponsored by the Institute of Classical Philology, University of Regensburg, under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Thraede, 1993-4.
American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Travel Grant, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, 1992.
American Council on Education Grant: “Spreading the Word: Improving Graduate Assistant Instruction of Introductory Foreign Languages,” 1992-1996.
Travel Grants, “Center for Renaissance Studies,” Consortium Program of The Newberry Library, in partnership with Illinois State University, several in the early 1990s.
Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, sponsored by Dom Eligius Dekkers, founding Director of Corpus Christianorum, St. Peter’s Abbey in Brugge, Belgium, 1990.
“Outstanding College Researcher Award,” College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, 1990.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Knights of Columbus Vatican Microfilm Library, Charles Ermatinger, Director, St. Louis University, 1989.
Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (administered by the University of Toronto), 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant (Hill Monastic Microfilm Library at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota), 1988.
Illinois State University Research Initiative Award, 1987.
Novus Prize, Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University, 1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Neo-Latin Archival Sciences” (conducted by Professor Jean-Claude Margolin, Director of the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance at the University of Tours), Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C., 1985.

Scholarly presentations (selected)
“Bach the Latin Teacher.” To be presented at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, University of Iowa, 2013.
“Reformation Neo-Latin: Towards an Aesthetics of Theological Prose in the Sixteenth Century.” To be presented at annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, 2013.
“Cicero in Heaven? The Roman Rhetor and the Protestant Reformation.” Presented at the Illinois Classical Conference, University of Chicago, 2012.
“Bach’s Latin.” Presented at “Lutheranism and the Classics II,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 2012 (plenary address). 
“Cicero in Heaven? Reading Luther’s Latin Letters.” Presented at XVth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies in Muenster, 2012.
“Wonder, Delight, and ‘the Ludic Impulse’ in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Presented at “The Classics Renewed: The Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity,” Rice University, 2011.
“Wise, Steadfast, and Magnanimous: Patrons of the Classics in Luther’s Wittenberg.” Presented as banquet address at “Lutheranism and the Classics,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 2010. 
“Myths of Progress and Decline in Ancient Greece.” Presented at Sixth Annual CAS Colloquium: “Thinking about Evolution,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2010.
“Death and Immortality in Martin Luther’s Latin Elegies.” Presented at the XIVth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Uppsala, 2009.
“Aesop, Martin Luther, and the Fable of the Fable.” Presented to the St. Louis Classical Club, 2009.
“Barbaric Humanism: Martin Luther and the Classics.” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Annual Meeting in Geneva, 2009.
“Scatology and Eschatology: Reading Martin Luther’s Latin Verse.” Presented at the Classical Association of the Midwest and South’s annual meeting, University of Minnesota, 2009 (invited paper for Presidential Panel on Neo-Latin Studies).
“Bridging the Empire: Religion and Engineering in Roman Mérida.” Presented at joint meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference and the Iowa Association of Classicists, Augustana College, 2008.
“Christ the Giant.” Presented at meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, “Bodies, Embodiments, Becomings,” St. Louis University, 2008.
“Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi.” Presented at IVth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2008.
“Ovid, Etiquette, and the Uses of Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico.” Presented at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, University of Arizona, 2008.
“The Not-So-Trivial Trivium.” Website presentation at Council of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences annual meeting, Portland, 2008. See www.siue.edu/CAS/trivium
“The Angers Manuscript of Sedulius.” Presented at symposium, “Late Antiquity in Illinois IV,” University of Illinois, 2008.
“Farming and the Development of Cultural Identity in Republican Rome.” Presented at 4th Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about the Environment,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2007.
“Romans on the Danube: The Traces of Empire.” Plenary presentation (with Avery R. Springer) at annual meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference (joint meeting with the Chicago Classical Club), Loyola University, Chicago, 2007.
“Martin’s Martial: Luther’s Latin Epigrams on the Blessed Life.” Presented at XIIIth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Budapest, 2006.
“Luther’s Aesop.” Presented at “The Word in the World: Christianity’s Encounter with Other Cultures,” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Pepperdine University, 2006.
“Of Roosters and Repetitio: Ambrose’s Aeterne Rerum Conditor.” Presented at symposium “Late Antiquity in Illinois III,” University of Illinois, 2006.
“Moses, Socrates, and Leo Strauss.” Presented at Third Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about Religion,” SIUE, 2004. 
 “Religio and Religion.” Presented at Third Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about Religion,” SIUE, 2004.
 “Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther and the Aeneid.” Presented to St. Louis Classical Club, 2004.
“Untrammeled Eclecticism: Toward a New Text of Sedulius.” Presented at colloquium on “Editing from Antiquity to the Enlightenment” at The Ohio State University, 2003.
“The Biblical Epic in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance.” Presented at symposium on “Late Antiquity and the Renaissance Compared” at the University of Groningen, 2001 (by invitation).
“Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther's Adversus armatum virum Cochlaeum.” Presented at XIth International Congress International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University, 2000.
“Anaphora in the Hymns of Ambrose.” Presented at the XIIIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, 1999.
“Vergil in the Mind of Luther.” Plenary address at annual meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference, University of Illinois, 1999. 
“Musa Witebergensis: The Latin Verse of Martin Luther.” Presented at annual meeting of American Philological Association, Chicago, 1997.
“Martin Luther’s De Fonte Oreadum Witebergensium.” Presented at Xth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Avila, 1997.
“Martin Luther, the Oreads of Wittenberg, and Sola Gratia.” Presented at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, University of Colorado, 1997.
“In the Beauty of the Lilies: Prophecy, Exegesis, and the Nativity in Late Antiquity.” Presented at seminar on “The Late Antique Bible and its Impact,” Rutgers University, 1997 and at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1996.
“Sedulius’ Paschale Opus: The Manuscript Witnesses.” Presented at St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, 1995.
“Nicetas and the Authorship of the Te Deum.” Presented at XIIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, 1995.
“Touching the Stars: Theme and Variations in Pagan and Christian Antiquity.” Presented at meeting of the International Society of the Classical Tradition, Boston University, 1995.
“The Ambrosian Hymn: Structure, Artistry, and Meaning.” Presented at Xth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies, Université Laval, Quebec, 1994. 
“Scriptural Truth and Poetic Imagination in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Presented at Leeds International Latin Seminar, University of Leeds, 1994.
“The Dating and Authorship of Proba’s Cento.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1993.
“The Theology of Proba’s Cento.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1992.
“Jerome and the Cento of Proba.” Presented at XIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, 1991.
“A New Critical Edition of Sedulius: Prolegomena.” Presented at Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, sponsored by Manuscripta, St. Louis University, 1989. 
“Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium: The Aesthetics of Antiphony.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1989.
“Proba’s Vergilian Cento in the Middle Ages: Reception, Aesthetics, and the Canon.” Presented at 24th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1989.
“The Living and the Dead in the Cena Trimalchionis.” Presented at Classical Association of the Midwest and South’s annual meeting, University of Kentucky, 1989. 
“Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory and Practice in the Late Quattrocento.” Presented at VIIIth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, University of Toronto, 1988. 
“Augustine and Vergil: The Poet as Mendax Vates.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1988.
“The Descent from Heaven in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Presented at 23rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1988.
“The Prefaces to Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory in the Late Quattrocento.” Presented at annual meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, 1987.
“Friends and Rivals in Cicero's De Amicitia.” Presentation at Illinois Humanities Council Summer Institute: “Teaching Roman Civilization in High Schools,” Rockford College, 1987.
“Milton and the Early Biblical Epic.” Presented at 21st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1986.
“The Church as Mother in Augustine's Psalmus contra Partem Donati.” Presented at “International Congress on the Conversion of St. Augustine,” sponsored by the Istituto Patristico Augustiniano, Rome, 1986. 
“Sedulius’ A Solis Ortus Cardine: A Reexamination.” Presented at annual meeting of Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University and at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1985.
“The Artistry of Augustine’s Psalmus contra Partem Donati.” Presented at Xth International Conference of Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, 1985.
“The Family Curse in Greek Tragedy and Hebrew Prophecy.” Presented at symposium on "Literature and Family," Marquette University, 1985.
“The Jewish-Hellenistic Epic: Forms and Transformations.” Presented at annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Toronto, 1984. 
"Sedulius’ Paschale Carmen: Text and Context." Presented at seminar on “Cultural Change in the Mediterranean World and the Near East in Late Antiquity,” University of Chicago, 1984.
“The Sedulous Editor: Turcius Rufius Asterius and His Edition of the Paschale Carmen.” Presented at 19th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1984.
“Character Enhancement in Juvencus' Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor.” Presented at 18th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983.
“Sedulius’ Paschale carmen as Literary Rival of the Aeneid.” Presented at symposium on “The Western Literary Tradition: The Christian Perspective,” Marquette University, 1983.

Courses Taught
Latin language courses at all levels, from the elementary (Wheelock, Latin via Ovid, Jenney) to intermediate and advanced (see below for specific authors and texts).
Greek language courses at all levels, from the elementary (New Testament, Homeric, Classical) to intermediate and advanced (see below for specific authors and texts).
“Classical Mythology” (large lecture section taught with the help of graduate assistants at UW-Madison and ISU).
“Introduction to Western Civilization” (Integrated Liberal Studies program at UW-Madison).
“Texts and Contexts” (intensive writing course developed for general education program at ISU).
“History of the Latin Language” (upper level undergraduate course at ISU).
“Latin Prose Composition” (upper level undergraduate course at ISU).
“Interpretation of Classical Mythology” (honors seminar at ISU)
“The Classical Tradition” (graduate seminar at ISU).
“Myth and Meaning” (World Mythology course at ISU, taught with Professor of Chinese).
“Classical Mythology and Its Influence” (300-level English class at SIUE).
“Rome: Culture, Ideas, and Values” (freshman seminar; taught with History professor at SIUE).
“Searching for Excellence in Ancient Greece” (study-abroad course, taught with SIUE and SIUC faculty in Greece and western Turkey.)
“World Mythology” (Interdisciplinary Studies course, taught on-line with Geography professor at SIUE.)
“History of the English Language” (400-level English class at SIUE).
“Tragedy: Violence, Entertainment, and Education in Ancient Greece” (Interdisciplinary Studies course, taught with Philosophy professor at SIUE).
“Cicero, Ciceronianism, and the Development of Prose Style” (Graduate seminar at SIUE).
“Introduction to the Bible” (300-level English class at SIUE).
“Death and Dying” (Interdisciplinary Studies course taught with Philosophy professor at SIUE).

Authors and texts taught in advanced Latin and Greek courses
Aelred, De spiritali amicitia; Aesop’s fables (Babrius and Phaedrus); Apuleius, The Golden Ass; Aristotle, Poetics; Augustine, Confessions; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Benedict, Regula; Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus, Caesar, Gallic Wars and Civil War; Carmina Burana; Catullus, Carmina; Cicero, selected speeches, De Amicitia, De Officiis, De Senectute; Erasmus, Ciceronianus; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Horace, Odes; Juvenal, Satires; Livy, Ab urbe condita; Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis and De servo arbitrio; Menander, Dyskolos; Ovid, Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria; Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis; Plato, Apology; Plato, Apology and Lysis; Plautus, Amphitryo, Miles Gloriosus, and Menaechmi; Pliny the Younger’s epistles; Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria; Sallust, Bellum Catilinae; Sedulius, Paschale Carmen; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis Claudii; the Septuagint; Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars; Tacitus, Annales and Germania; Terence, Andria and Phormio; Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica; Vergil’s Georgics and Aeneid; the Vulgate; Xenophon, Anabasis and Apology.

Student research projects
Advisor for MA thesis for Brian Wallace, Department of English, SIUE, study of Aesop’s fables in Japan, 2011-present.
Faculty mentor for Austin Gibson, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Academy, SIUE: “Erasmus’ Ciceronianism,” 2012.
Thesis advisor and chair of Master’s committee for Chris Orban, Department of English, SIUE,  2010-11, study of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius.
Faculty mentor for Nancy Staples, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Academy, SIUE: “Translating Sedulius’ Paschale Carmen V,” 2010.
Faculty mentor for Nathan Stuller, Bachelor of Liberal Studies Senior Assignment, study of the history of the doctrine of predestination, 2009.
Faculty mentor for Jake Schlemper, Bachelor of Liberal Studies Senior Assignment, study of the history of armaments housed in the SIUE University Museum, 2009. 
Member of doctoral committee for Michael Albrecht, Luther Theological Seminary, PhD dissertation on J.P. Koehler and the Wauwatosa Theology, 2008.
Faculty mentor for Michael Toje, SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy: “A Translation of Sedulius’ Paschale Carmen, Books 1 and 3,” 2007-2008. 
Faculty mentor for Nathan Guthrie, Bachelor of Liberal Studies Senior Assignment, study of 16th century Latin manual on fighting with broad swords, 2006.
Member of doctoral committee for Rick Phillips (“Blindness Spells in the Egyptian Magical Papyri,” University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), 2000-2001.

Scholarly and Professional Service (selected) 
Member of Local Committee for 76th annual meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference, co-hosted by SIUE and SIUC, 2013.
Co-organizer of “Lutheranism and the Classics II,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), October, 2012 (with Professor John Nordling and Dr. James Kellerman). 
Member of Faculty Grievance Committee, SIUE, 2012-13.
Member of CAS Research and Projects Committee, 2012-13.
Member of awards committee for Concordia Historical Institute, 2012-13.
Consultant for Art and Design Department, 2011-13.
Interviewed for article on Luther’s Aesop: “Springer’s Book Looks to Luther and Aesop,” in “This Week in CAS,” Jan. 16, 2012. See http://thisweekincas.com/2012/01/16/springers-book-looks-to-luther-and-aesop/
Featured in article in Edwardsville Intelligencer: “Springer Studies Links Between Religions,” May 27, 2011. See http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/CTarticle11.pdf Also interviewed on radio show “Seque” at WSIE, May 29, 2011.
Participant in presentation on “Why Teachers Teach,” at the Edwardsville Public Library, May, 2011.
Chair of Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Paper Competition, 2004-2006 and again in 2011-12; I have served as a member of the committee from Fall 2006 to the present. I was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Executive Board at the SIUE Chapter, 2003-2006, and served as a judge in the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Paper Competition, 2011.
Member of editorial board of Ovid, Myth, and (Literary) Exile, a journal published by the Ovidius University of Constanta, 2011-present. See http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/litere/ovidius/board.html
Organizer and chair of roundtable on “Louis Sullivan and the Battle for American Architecture” for CAS Annual Colloquium, “Thinking about America,” 2011.
Member of search committee for linguist hire in English Department, 2010-11.
Member of English Proficiency Examination Committee, 2010-present.
Co-organizer, with Professor John Nordling and Dr. Jon Bruss, of conference on “Lutheranism and the Classics,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), October 2010. 
Reviewed sixth edition of Barry Powell, Classical Myth, for publisher, Pearson/Longman, 2010.
Organized and led College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Roundtable on “Premodern Studies,” Spring 2010, and “Promoting the Louis Sullivan Collection at SIUE,” in Fall 2010.
Organized Sixth Annual CAS Colloquium: “Thinking about Evolution,” with Jonah Lehrer, author of “Proust was a Neuro-Scientist,” as plenary speaker, April, 2010. Organized session entitled “The Evolution of Evolution.” See http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/colloquia
Interviewed on “Issues, Etc.,” web-based talk radio show: “Luther and the Fables of Aesop,” 2010.
Invited reader in a marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses sponsored by the Pulitzer Foundation of the Arts, St. Louis, 2009 and repeated at John Burroughs School in 2010. See Youtube interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqEzIOgFio
Judge of Illinois Junior Classical League Certamen Contest, Collinsville High School, 2008. I have served as judge for IJCL a number of times at high schools across Illinois.
Organized 5th Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about the University” (24 sessions with over 70 presenters), 2008. Served as moderator of panel I organized on “Plating the University: Heavy on the Humanities.” 
“Conversation with Lee Presser.” A TV interview on the influence of Classical Mythology, first aired on Charter Cable Channel 18, August 4, 2008.
Member of panel on “Implementing First Year Experiences in Different College/University Settings” at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Chicago, 2007.
Organized 4th Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about the Environment,” including a special session I organized and chaired entitled “Poetry and Plumbing: Exploring the Relationship between the Romans and their Natural Environment,” SIUE, 2007.
Member of the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Executive Committee, 2006-11, and program subcommittee. See http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html 
“First Year Seminars: CAS Perspectives.” Panel that I organized and moderated for the annual meeting of the Illinois Deans of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, hosted by SIUE, 2006.
Organized Third Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about Religion,” co-sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council with Stanley Fish as the plenary speaker (over 100 participants and approximately 700 attendees). Organized and chaired two panels: “Jerusalem and Athens” and “Sacrifice: A Dialogue with the Ancient World.”
“Gospels.” Talk given for “Dialogue with Senior Citizens” series, SIUE’s Office of Continuing Education, 2006.
“Teaching the Ancient Greeks in Modern Greece.” Talk given to high school teachers from southwestern Illinois at a reception organized by SIUE’s School of Education, 2006.
Member of a panel to discuss advising issues and strategies for improvement of undergraduate advisement at annual meeting of Illinois College of Arts and Sciences Deans, Western Illinois University, 2005.
Launched new colloquium series for CAS designed to have broad appeal for both faculty and students at SIUE and the surrounding communities. We had over 40 presentations at our first colloquium, “Thinking about Empire” for which I delivered the opening address, “Thinking about the Pax Americana,’ and over 50 presentations for the second colloquium, “Thinking about Masculinity” in 2005. 
Member of Classical Association of the Middle West and South’s Committee on the Manson A. Stewart Education and Travel Awards, 2004-2007. I served as Chair of the Committee from 2005 to 2007 and also was a member of the CAMWS Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships from 2005 to 2007.
Member of local committee for the 100th anniversary meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South (over 800 in attendance) in St. Louis, 2004.
Speaker at workshop for high school teachers of Geography held at SIUE, “Exploring the Aegean,” 2002. 
Coordinator SIUE Classical Studies Minor, 2000-present.
Member of International Studies Advisory Committee for the Deputy Governor of Illinois, 2000-2002.
Organized and chaired session on “The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies” for the annual meeting of the Illinois College of Arts and Sciences Deans at SIUE, 2000.
Speaker at banquet reception for Presidential Scholars: “Mythical Monsters: The Comforts of the Grotesque,” Illinois State University, 2000.
Member of American Philological Association's Committee on the Classical Tradition, 1998-2000. I also was a member of American Philological Association’s Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education, 1993-1996 and served as Chair of the committee from 1995 to 1996.
Consultant for National Mythology Exam, 1998.
Consultant for Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998).
Outside evaluator for tenure decision in the Department of Foreign Languages, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 1997.
Referee for Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1996, for Mediaevalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, 1991, and for Classical Journal, 1985-1988.
Outside evaluator for review of Classics Department at Rockford College, 1996.
Reviewed for publisher (Mayfield): S. Harris and G. Platzner, Classical Mythology: Images and Insights (Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing, 1995), 1996.
Host of Illinois State Latin Tournament (c. 200 students), Illinois State University, 1993 and 1988. I also helped to write and grade for the Illinois State Latin Examination, 1986-1987.
Co-authored article surveying placement in Latin at colleges and universities in Illinois, published in The Augur, bulletin of the Illinois Classical Conference, 1993.
President of the Illinois Classical Conference (state organization founded in 1938, with membership of over 100 high school and college teachers of Latin and Classics), 1992-1993; Vice-President, 1990-1992. I served as Program Chair for annual meetings of the Illinois Classical Conference in 1991-1992. I also organized and chaired a session, “Teaching Women in Antiquity,” Illinois Classical Conference, Western Illinois University, 1991, as well as a session on “The Classical Tradition,” Illinois Classical Conference annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1992. I chaired the Illinois Classical Conference Liaison Committee and served on the ICC Committee for the Teaching of Latin in Illinois, 1988-1992.
Grant reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities Translations Program and Reference Materials Program, 1992-1995.
“Outstanding Teacher Award,” Illinois State Red Tassel/Mortar Board Honor Society, 1992.
Guest speaker at “Latin Olympics,” University of Illinois-Chicago (“Classical Mythology and Popular Music”), 1992.
Visiting Woodward Scholar, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL, 1992.
Associate in Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, and Princeton, New Jersey, 1991-present. See http://manuscriptevidence.org/data/node/8
Contributing editor for Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, 1991-present.
Outside evaluator for tenure decision at Catholic University of America, Classics Department, 1991
Guest speaker at annual meeting of Illinois Junior Classical League, St. Ignatius Preparatory School, Chicago, “Mythological Monsters,” 1991.
Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Executive Board and Leadership Council, 1990-1993.
Invited speaker at “Workshop for Social Studies and Latin Teachers: Teaching Ancient Civilizations in High School,” sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference and Western Illinois University (“Trimalchio's Dinner as a Microcosm of Roman Civilization”), 1989. 
Participant on Illinois Classical Conference panel on “The State of Latin in the State of Illinois,” University of Chicago, 1988.
Guest speaker, Illinois Junior Classical League, Illinois State University (“Monsters as Images of Chaos”), 1986.
Organizer and Chair of session on the Medieval Latin hymn at 19th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1985.

Languages
Other languages besides English in which I am fluent, or read with some degree of facility, include: Greek, Latin, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Biblical Hebrew, and Syriac.

Membership in Learned and Professional Societies (not all current)
Archeological Institute of America, American Philological Association, Classical Association of Midwest and South, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Illinois Classical Conference, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, International Society for the Classical Tradition, Medieval Association of the Midwest, North American Patristics Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Vergilian Society.       		

Revised 11/28/2012