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.
Ron Janoff is a Latin scholar and an adjunct professor of Classical Mythology. He has taught at public, private, and charter schools at intermediate, high school, and college levels. At New York University he served as a director for program development. He was a coordinator of the NYU Beat Generation Conferences of 1994 and 1995, working closely with Allen Ginsberg and with the Kerouac/Sampas estate. He received his Ph.D. in English Education from NYU with a specialization in multiculturalism and travel writing. Dr. Janoff lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he publishes a weekly annotated on-line issue of The New York Latin Leaflet of 1900-1906.
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is the Deputy Executive Officer of M.A. Program in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is also the Director of the Archaeology of the Classical, Late Antique and Islamic Worlds track in the Liberal Studies Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center. She earned degrees in History, Archaeology and Classics at Cornell University where she graduated summa cum laude, and she earned her Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Classical Archaeology at Oxford University. Trained as a garden archaeologist and architectural historian, she has excavated or served as a garden ceramic specialist on excavations in Italy, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. She is editor of two books and is author of over ten articles on ancient Roman gardens and architecture. Currently, she also serves as a member of the governing board and the executive committee of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Jared Simard is a Ph.D. Candidate in Classics at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation, "Classics and Rockefeller Center: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Use of Classicism in Public Space," examines the influence of Classics and the ancient world on Rockefeller Jr. and his philanthropy, and also analyzes the reception of classical mythology in the artwork of Rockefeller Center. Jared received an MA in Classics from The Graduate Center, CUNY, and received a BA in Classics and History from the University of Pittsburgh (Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa). He teaches Classical Mythology, The Greek and Latin Roots of English, Roman Civilization, and Beginning Latin 101 and 102 at Hunter College, CUNY. Select data on classical mythology in post-antique art can be found on his website Mapping Mythology, a long-term research project. His scholarly interests include Latin poetry and personification, mythology in the arts, reception studies, and digital humanities.
Christophe Rico is currently the director of Polis. The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities, which offers courses in ancient languages taught using modern language acquisition methods. Prof. Rico holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Sorbonne and recently published a textbook for learning Koine Greek as a living language, Polis. Parler le grec ancien comme une langue vivante, available in French, German, and Italian.