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Instructor Biographies

E. Christian Kopff was born in Brooklyn NY, November 22, 1946 and educated at St. Paul's School (Garden City NY), Haverford College PA (B.A., summa cum laude) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D., Classics).
He has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1973, where he has been Associate Director of the Honors Program since 1990. For about five of the last thirty years he has lived in Rome, Italy, teaching and studying. He is editor of a critical edition of the Greek text of Euripides' Bacchae (Teubner, 1982) and author of over 100 articles and reviews on scholarly, pedagogical and popular topics. He currently works with the Classics Department of the University of Urbino, Italy on ancient Greek lyric poetry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the CU Committee on Research. His book, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America
Needs the Classical Tradition (ISIBooks, 1999; third [paperback] edition 2001) is widely cited in the new Classical Education movement.

 

Patricia FitzGibbon (Ph. D., Classical Studies, Duke University 2001)is founder and co-director of the Colorado College Summer Latin Institute. She has been a member of the CC Classics Dept. faculty since 1999 and has 20 years Latin teaching experience at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels in both high school and college. She has also taught Greek, Roman and Greek literature, and Greek philosophy. She has served on committees responsible for conventions and colloquia in Latin and the Classics and has been involved in Latin/Classics curriculum committees on the high school and college levels. Please contact her for questions regarding the CC Latin Institute at:

Colorado College Dept. of Classics
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80893
pfitzgibbon@coloradocollege.edu
719-389-6009
 

 

Noel Lenski (Ph.D. Princeton 1995) studies all eras of Roman history and specializes in late antiquity. His
book, Valens and the Fourth-Century Empire (California, 2002), offers a detailed account of the emperor Valens' reign in its late Roman context. His
articles on various aspects of Roman history have appeared in GRBS, TAPA, Klio, Phoenix, the Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum and the Journal for the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Prof. Lenski, the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, has received a University of Colorado distinguished teaching award
(2000).

 

Richard Beaton (Ph.D. NYU Albany 1975) is currently teaching Latin at Griffin High School in Griffin, Georgia. He has been honored for his
teaching many times by the students and faculty at Griffin High School, by the Foreign Language Association of Georgia, the Georgia Classical
Association, the Southern Conference on Language Teaching, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and by other
organizations. He began his teaching career at Griffin High School, Griffin, Georgia, in 1976. In that time he has turned a small program with 24 students wherein he also taught English, German and Greek into two full-time teaching positions serving 200 students.